“If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.”

“Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”

“The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse in which our political, cultural, and religious leaders have fit data to preconceived theories.”

“Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.”

“UNTRUSTWORTHINESS is a viewpoint. Depends which side of the fence you are viewing from!”

“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items. -- From The Devil's DP Dictionary”