Data Quotes

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

Who has the data has the power.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

I don't think there is any global warming. I don't see the statistical data for that.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think.

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Recent data and research supports the importance of natural climate variability and calls into question the conclusion that humans are the dominant cause of recent climate change.

Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.

People are running huge enterprises off of hacking and stealing data.

I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.

Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Wikipedia was offline after an overheating problem at one of its data centers. It was pretty bad. For a while there, people had nowhere to go for phony, inaccurate information.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

You cannot write well without data.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.