Thomas H. Davenport famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.
On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.
It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.
I realized that even big waves start with small ripples
I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.
There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.
I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are.
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

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