Michael Schumacher Quotes

It's important to drive consistently to evaluate changes that are made to the car. You need to be very accurate with your feedback and communicate as much information as possible.

Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Data is not intelligence.

In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

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

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

It is a truism to say that a good experiment is precisely that which spares us the exertion of thinking: the better it is, the less we have to worry about its interpretation, about what it really means.

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

No theory ever benefited by the application of data, Amy. Data kills theories. A theory has no better time than when it's lying there naked, pure, unsullied by facts. Let's just keep it that way for a while." "So you don't really have a theory?" "Clueless." "You lying bag of fish heads." "I can fire you, you know. Even if Clay was the one that hired you, I'm not totally superfluous to this operation yet. I'm kind of in charge. I can fire you. Then how will you live?" "I'm not getting paid." "See, right there. Perfectly good concept ruined by the application of fact.

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.