Data Quotes

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.

The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.

You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.

Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data.

Data is your eyes, not your brain.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred.

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.

While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.

The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.

People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.

It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost not the data, but the human expertise that took it there the last time.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

You can't publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.

Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent signal or noise

Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.

Data is not intelligence.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

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The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.

If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

There is very strong historical data that suggest the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation.