Data Quotes

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.

Consider data without prejudice.

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

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.

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that.

You cannot write well without data.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

People are starting to be very skeptical of the Facebook algorithm and all kinds of data surveillance.

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

Information wants to be free.

In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.

What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.