Hal Varian Rule of Thumb

Between the dawn of civilization and 2003, we only created five exabytes of data [5 thousand gigabytes]; now we’re creating that amount every two days ... by 2020, that figure is predicted to sit at 53 zettabytes (53 trillion gigabytes), an increase of 50 times. ... data is like food: we used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity; we used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity!

Harold Pinter Rule of Thumb

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false ... a thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

W. Edwards Deming Rule of Thumb

In God we trust ... all others bring data.

Mephistopheles Rule of Thumb

Everything bad you find on the internet about someone or something you don't like is true ... the good things you find are false.

Gertrude Stein Rule of Thumb

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Abraham Lincoln Rule of Thumb

The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is difficult to verify their authenticity.

George Le Masurier Rule of Thumb ...

We need the Rule of Thumb ... the Rule of the Little Pinkie just doesn't carry the same weight as a Rule of Thumb, and there are no rules for the third finger ... this means people would have to rely on the Rule of the Index Finger, which seems a little too pointed, or the Rule of the Middle Finger, which would just plain get us into a lot of trouble.

William Bragg Rule of Thumb

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Jim Jindrick Rule of Thumb

Ask "why?" ... if that doesn't work, ask "why not?"

Bernard M. Baruch Rule of Thumb

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with ... you may not like what you find! In that case you are entitled to try to change it ... but do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.

Rutherford D. Rogers Rule of Thumb

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Microsoft Rule of Thumb

Save early, save often!

Louise Francesconi Rule of Thumb

72.6% of all statistics are made up.

Benjamin Disraeli Rule of Thumb

There are lies, damn lies, and statistics!

Sherlock Holmes Rule of Thumb

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

Mark Twain Rule of Thumb

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so!

Carla O'Dell Rule of Thumb

If you don't give people information, they'll make up something to fill the void.

Henri Matisse's Rule of Thumb

Exactitude is not truth.