Retrieving Data Quotes & Sayings

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest. — Jeff Koons

She laughed, and the desert sang. — Jerry Spinelli

Every decade archaeologists discover another few forgotten scripts. Some of them might prove to be even older than the Sumerian scratches in clay. But most of them remain curiosities because those who invented them failed to invent efficient ways of cataloguing and retrieving data. What set apart Sumer, as well as pharaonic Egypt, ancient China and the Inca Empire, is that these cultures developed good techniques of archiving, cataloguing and retrieving written records. — Yuval Noah Harari

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children. from chapter VIII of Les Miserables — Victor Hugo

Tom Stoppard has said that the trouble with bad art is that the artist knows exactly what he's doing.) — Clive James

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers. — Nicholas Sparks

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim - arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object. — Jack Kornfield

The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need. — Alistair Begg

An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy — Diane Ravitch

I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen — Roddy Doyle

Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out ... — George Bernard Shaw

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie. — Dolph Lundgren

Another way to speak of the anxiety is in terms of the gap between information and knowledge. A barrage of data so often fails to tell us what we need to know. Knowledge, in turn, does not guarantee enlightenment or wisdom. (Eliot said that, too: "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? / Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?") It is an ancient observation, but one that seemed to bear restating when information became plentiful - particularly in a world where all bits are created equal and information is divorced from meaning. The humanist and philosopher of technology Lewis Mumford, for example, restated it in 1970: "Unfortunately, 'information retrieving,' however swift, is no substitute for discovering by direct personal inspection knowledge whose very existence one had possibly never been aware of, and following it at one's own pace through the further ramification of relevant literature." He begged for a return to "moral self-discipline. — James Gleick

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what? — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I don't think anybody who carries a rifle carries the future. Because I don't believe that you can really change the world by killing and shooting. You have the change it by creating and competing. — Shimon Peres