Prior Data

Famous quotes containing the words prior and/or data:

“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“This city is neither a jungle nor the moon.... In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies. Close up, it is a fairly legible printed circuit, a transistorized labyrinth of beastly tracks, a data bank for asthmatic voice-prints.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)