Bit Datum

Famous quotes containing the words bit and/or datum:

“Sadie: How’d you get him here? He was out stiff.
Jack: Hair of the dog that bit him.
Sadie: Hair? He must have swallowed the dog.”
—Robert Rossen (1908–1966)

“Language fails not because thought fails, but because no verbal symbols can do justice to the fullness and richness of thought. If we are to continue talking about “data” in any other sense than as reflective distinctions, the original datum is always such a qualitative whole.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)