Bring Data

N.R. Narayana Murthy, a founder of Infosys, has told young people: “In God we trust. Everybody else brings data to the table.”

The saying is widely credited to the American statistician W. Edwards Deming. Quote Investigator found “no substantive support” for that. The earliest known use is in testimony to a subcommittee of the United States House of Representatives in 1978 by Edwin R. Fisher, who called it a well-recognized cliché.

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