Data Quotes · Page 53

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's…

— Ernest Dimnet

I would gather information and have to give it to somebody else and not get the byline.

— Connie Chung

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry…

— Reed Hundt

The entire brain of the organization is here. The construction drawings and data processing all takes place in Rotterdam.

— Boyan Slat

A model's robustness depends on how often it gets tried out and tweaked based on data and its performance.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

— Paul Saffo

I'm a guy that has tended to buy into all the analytics that we have going on.

— Aaron Boone

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

— Jean Baudrillard

Digital companies can reach new customers immediately and at virtually zero marginal cost. They can compete in new sectors by collaborating with…

— Pierre Nanterme

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the…

— Peter Drucker

My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Brendan Rodgers

Imagine if we can get information from sensors, compute it in the cloud, and find and plug water leakages - leakage wastes…

— Rajeev Suri

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S.…

— Melissa Bean

Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is…

— Marvin Ammori

I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing…

— T. Colin Campbell

Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But…

— John Mackey

In 88 poor countries for which we have data, in each and every one of the 88, the PPP for food shows…

— Thomas Pogge

We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in…

— James Clerk Maxwell

I think it was Samuel Johnson who said, "There are two kinds of information in this world: that what you know and…

— Paul Saffo

I'm a very good decision maker because I have core set of principles and so I can make decisions. Decisions can be…

— Michele Bachmann

What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've…

— Jim Yong Kim

“They tell me we're living in an information age, but none of it seems to be the information I need or brings…

— Matthew Flaming

“Information, as narrowly defined by Shannon, concerns the predictability of a message source. In the real world, however, information is something that…

— Melanie Mitchell

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say…

— Anonymous

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

— Clayton Christensen

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or…

— Hugh Howey

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

— Moira J. Moore

The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.

— Gloria Steinem

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

— Henry Mintzberg

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

— Stephen Cambone

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

— Linus Torvalds

All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

— John Mellencamp

Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud…

— Chris Lynch

“When I live in someone's home, I keep a regular cloud backup of my computer data.”

— Steven Magee

Networks love data. They love to be able to look at numbers and try to predict what they think will work.

— Nahnatchka Khan

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

— Bruce H. Lipton

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries…

— Frances O'Grady

“People give out information all the time. You just have to know who to ask.”

— Laura Griffin

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

— Edward Tufte