Data Quotes · Page 46

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

— Cathy O'Neil

I'd aspired to give people a profound education - to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this…

— Sebastian Thrun

As we've got more data, and ClassPass has grown, we've had to change rather than have a one-size fits all approach.

— Payal Kadakia

We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as…

— George Monbiot

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

— Julie Payette

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

— Warren Farrell

Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.

— Om Malik

We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

— Michael Lazerow

People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at…

— Tom Bodett

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people…

— Annie Leonard

If you have all the research, all the ground rules, all the directives, all the data - it doesn't mean the ad…

— David Ogilvy

I think there are a lot of industries that are collecting a lot of data and have not yet considered the implications…

— Jeff Dean

The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management…

— Mike Marsh

The polling data shows not an unbelievable level of concern [on climate issue] but a general awareness of this problem. And now…

— Bill McKibben

“The amount of stored information grows four times faster than the world economy, while the processing power of computers grows nine times…

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

The Equifax data breach, affecting the personal, financial information of 143 million Americans and 5.4 million Pennsylvanians, is an outrageous display of corporate malfeasance.

— Josh Shapiro

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of…

— Edward Bernays

We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still…

— Bill Gates

In the traditionally taught view of perception, data from the sensorium pours into the brain, works its way up the sensory hierarchy,…

— David Eagleman

You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range.…

— David Foster Wallace

The President's science advisor, who is a former Harvard professor named Holdren, is involved in the email scandals and covering up the…

— Jim Sensenbrenner

Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,…

— Edmund Pellegrino

If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential…

— Rand Paul

“What we need is a “dashboard” complete with an array of indicators to track the things that make life worthwhile – money…

— Rutger Bregman

And anytime a programmer makes a decision about how to deal with data, how to average it or clean it, you're imparting…

— Hannah Fry

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

— Roger Kimball

I find statistics a good thing to measure and we do look closely at them, but we don't go crazy on it,…

— Eddie Howe

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Fareed Zakaria

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

— Christopher Lasch

At the end of the day, it's all about the players. We can talk methodology or analytics, but it's about the guys…

— Joe Maddon

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

— Linus Torvalds

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the…

— James Clerk Maxwell

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

— Peter Armitage

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

— Young Jeezy

“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

— Irving Kirsch

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

— Robert Cailliau

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala