Blackboard Inter Quotes & Sayings

The authors, academics from Northeastern University, Harvard University, and the University of Houston, concluded that Google Flu Trends had wildly overestimated the number of flu cases in the United States for more than two years. The article, "The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis," concluded that the errors were, at least in part, due to the decisions made by GFT engineers about what to include in their models - mistakes the academics dubbed "algorithmic dynamics" and "big data hubris. — Clayton M Christensen

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level. — Tennessee Williams

I got my first computer at, I don't know, when I was 11 years old? 10? — Jeff Moss

This I believe: I believe there is no God. — Penn Jillette

She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation. — Jim Berg

Each person is different and each one will reach God by his or her own path. — Paulo Coelho

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. — Groucho Marx

That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have? — Lesley Howarth

How did I know? Paul, I've known since you were eight and I caught you masturbating in front of the TV to Bo and Luke Duke. — Heidi Cullinan

vowed to herself that she wouldn't give him a son until after they were legally wed. — Danielle Yvette

I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time. — Rory Block

With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea? — Pablo Neruda

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed. — Kirstie Alley

I read obsessively when I'm writing. I think there are two kinds of fiction writers, those who read incessantly while they write and those who can't read at all, lest their individual voices get overwhelmed, or tainted somehow. I'm the first kind. To use a painfully precious metaphor, I need fixed stars to navigate by, otherwise I get lost in the blankness of the page. — Lev Grossman