David Dixon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.
-- David Dixon

#Technology #Data #Three
As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.
-- David Dixon

#Support #Effort #Voting
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.
-- David Dixon

#Discipline #Training #Documentaries
Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.
-- David Dixon

#Oil #Unexpected #Terrible
Fashion goes beyond fabric; it is the attempt to manifest art on a breathing canvas. I am very excited to collaborate with the artistic community as we celebrate this diversity of creative vision.
-- David Dixon

#Fashion #Art #Breathing

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront Ãªtre Ã©difiÃ©es", Fr.) the real basis of morality.
A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a cell will solve biological problems. This will come in a few centuries. For the time being, the biologist has to face such concepts as orienting forces or morphogenetic fields. Owing to the scarcity of chemical data and to the complexity of life, and despite the progresses of biochemistry, the biologist is still threatened with vertigo.
If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.

David Dixon famous quotes

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