“They think that intelligence is about noticing things that are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“Once there was a young man who, like you, sat in this hall. Walked this corridor. Seemed to all the world a student like any other. It was only a matter of time before we made the connection.”— J. K. Rowling, Spielman, Wolf Roth, imdb.com
“I'm an information grazer. I've always felt comfortable with skidding across vast plains of data, connecting the dots wherever it feels right.”— Fred Tomaselli, edge.org
“It’s even been said that data mining means torturing the data until it confesses.”— Pedro Domingos, amazon.com
“I'm making explorations. I don't know where they're going to take me… My writings constitute the process rather than the completed product of discovery; my purpose is to employ facts as tentative probes, as means of insight, of pattern recognition, rather than to use them in the traditional and ster…”— Marshall McLuhan, cs.ucdavis.edu