Bhuvneshwar Kumar Quotes

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

There's always more to a story than a body can see from the fenceline.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

Meaning is not in things but in between them.

Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.

Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

The truth seems to love the small print.

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed in this hidden truth the way other men believed in God or love, believed that truth was in fact always hidden, that the apparent, the overt, was invariably a kind of lie.