The R Book, 2nd Edition

The R Book, 2nd Edition is a nice read and resource just four chapters in. It is new to me to find a resource that poses so many examples of things you want to accomplish with links for explanations how, instead of presenting a core of functionality and letting you choose how yourself. Definitely a “read-as-you-need” book, and the first chapter even explains how best to utilize it in that manner.
Addendum: 2014-08-23T11:15:48-0500
Chapters 1-5 seem to be about R proper, and everything else is about applied statistics.

Key data points

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

— Richard Hamming

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

— George E. P. Box

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

— Clifford Stoll

All creativity is an extended form of a joke

All creativity is an extended form of a joke. Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.” Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in–the one that we think is reality.

– Alan Kay

This human is on to something… great.

Via ACM. Thanks Buzz for helping me find the source.