Data Quotes

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.

Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it’s about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

Pinterest may have more travel intent data than any other site, so many people are pinning where they want to be.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

Data can actually make us more human.

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

More data is not always the answer.

All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated.

On data: We are the drivers, not the driven.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.

We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.