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Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

"I was hoping this presentation would be more interesting upside down."

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

"I'd say we were pretty much on target."

"Actually, she's just a figurehead boss. Our real CEO is an algorithm floating around somewhere in the cloud!"

Fear/Knowledge

'According to our statistics department, 78.93 of the statistics they produce are worthless.'

"Right about here there was a flattening of the curve. . ."

"Boss, the AI is actually smarter than all of us! It read our business forecast, jumped up and ran out laughing!"

Santa sits in front of computers with naughty data and nice data screens.

Reading my Critics

'How can we believe anything when we can disprove everything?'

"Unfortunately, the consumer was not as demanding as we had hoped."

"Now I really hate poetry."

"Thank you for that summation of the charts."

"Of course this'll be a great year. The data, sales projections, customer surveys, and my mom all think so."

"Brilliant report, I can't tell where the facts and the fiction begins"

"Actual results indicate that the statistical analysis of the data which projections were based on may have been wrong."

'Why can't you tell me you love me without all the charts and graphs?!'

'We're living in a round hole economy.'

"My favorite way to start the day...coffee, danish, and a data dump."

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

"Remember Mr. Cockbundle is not just a 'customer', he is an important source of valuable and readily marketable data."

"Peterson proposes we move out of the mountains."

"Right, before we look at the covid figures for today, do we need another sheet of paper?"

"I'm going to bombard you with graphs until you agree with me."

"Is there any way I could get a dashboard instead of a report card?"

"Our new information management system has just worked out where we wasted most money last year. . . It was on the new information management system."

'Maybe the reason we don't have those 'off the chart' sales anymore is because our charts are too big.'

"The numbers don't lie . . . but we do."

"We've done a rigorous examination of your business plan using the latest algorithms to model future profits. . . which way up would you like it?"

"Exactly how undecided would you say you were at this precise moment?"

Charities should investigate whether published reports are 'Misleadingly Positive'.