Data Quotes

Data Quote of the day

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

In God we trust; all others bring data.

It isn't more light we need, it isn't more truth, and it isn't more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

War is ninety percent information.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.