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“The more we cherish an idea, the more we’ll love any chart that corroborates it, no matter how simplistic that chart is.”
― Alberto Cairo, How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
― Mehdi Hasan, Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking

“if there’s no reason to care about aesthetics, an evolved machine will take any shape that gets the job done.”
― Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

“Neuroscientific studies suggest that the brain responds in much the same anxious way to facts that threaten our preconceptions as it does to wild animals that threaten our lives.”
― Tim Harford, The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics