Data Quotes

Information wants to eat brie.

— Evgeny Morozov

Information is not knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

— Peter Diamandis

Who has the data has the power.

— Tim O'Reilly

What we have is a data glut.

— Vernor Vinge

“feedback is just information.”

— Ben Hunt-Davis

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

Holy concise data btaamn. Lol!

— Wednesday

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

— Jenny Holzer

I have a Reagan-like ability to believe in my own data.

— Geoffrey Hinton

“Information was power. And sometimes, when time was tight, it was speed.”

— Stephen King

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

— Ray Kurzweil

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

— Patton Oswalt

Our personal data belongs to us. Government holds it on trust.

— Dominic Grieve

Data is immensely appealing to me as a social scientist.

— Zeynep Tufekci

42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

— Anonymous

We resurrect 'Mezzanine' with a promise that we can break free from the data of the past and escape the feedback loops.

— Robert Del Naja

Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data.

— Howard Lutnick

If we have data, lets look at data. If all we have are opinions, lets go with mine.

— Anonymous

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

— L. Ron Hubbard

You can collect Facebook data legally with the consent of the Facebook users and the consent of Facebook.

— Alexander Nix

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's…

— Larry Page

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Dick Taylor

In short, we accumulate all the information that we can accumulate, wherever that information comes from, and try to analyze it and…

— Bill Belichick

Engel & Voelkers has a long-standing reputation for providing excellence to a demanding clientele. Now we provide even more by offering our…

— Anthony Hitt

In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head…

— Victoria Pendleton

I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting…

— Jacques Villeneuve

It's easy for me to see how a business proposition is going to play out, or who our next-generation competitors are, from…

— John T. Chambers

You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't…

— Nathan Shedroff

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure…

— Nate Silver

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use…

— Hannah Fry

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person…

— Jaron Lanier

It's clear that North took some original steps in that direction, but Hall probably had the most complete approach and should get…

— Charles R. Morris

There is no doubt in my mind, after 37 years of study and investigation that the evidence is overwhelming that planet Earth…

— Stanton T. Friedman

When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be…

— Sara Harrison

Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of…

— Edward Bernays

The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the paperwork because…

— Jack Smith

These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible…

— Erik Spiekermann