Data Quotes

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong.

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

The public trusts big data way too much.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

This is the time to be super aggressive

We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself.

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

However, the models also predict unambiguously that the atmosphere is warming faster than the surface of the earth; but all the available observational data unambiguously shows the opposite!

Marketers can target Sponsored Updates to any segment of our premium audience based on professional profile data across more than 225 million members.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

Don't censor incoming data through denial.

Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.

Governance allows organizations...t o use critical data to drive the organization.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

The outsourcing of our memory to machines expands the amount of data to which we have access, but degrades our brain’s own ability to remember things.

Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Ultimately, thinking is a very inefficient method of processing data.

And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.

If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.

I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

Management must provide employees with tools that will enable them to do their jobs better, and with encouragement to use these tools. In particular, they must collect data.

So as soon as you want something to happen you begin skewing the data to support it. Our stuff is invaluable to decision-makers precisely because we have no ax to grind.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it’s harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights.