Data Quotes

On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information

War is 90% information.

Surveys show that surveys never lie.

scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that accurately represents reality.

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

There is the finest line between data and evidence.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

Hate is love without enough data.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

Apple and Google will compete like crazy for our data because once they have it we'll be their customers forever.

The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world.

Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously.

Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative.

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear.

Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

Data is great, but strategy is better

The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.

You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to figure out what they believe.

I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.