- Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie. Most of it is total fucking irrelevant noise. So unless you have good techniques for filtering and processing the information, you're going to get into a lot of trouble.
- Statistics are often just history. They're saying, 'Here's a really fiscally rich description of something that happened in the past'. It doesn't always predict the future, especially if you don't understand the causality.
- In the Unted States, gay marriage has gone from unthinkable to the law of the land in just a couple of decades. Homosexuality has gone from "the love that dare not speak its name' - something that could get you locked up, beat up, ostracized or killed, as is still the case in much of the world - into something that's out and proud, so to speak.
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