Data Quotes · Page 55

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

— Anonymous

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build…

— Ben Goldacre

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

— David Shields

I think you have to rely on your gut, but I think during the week that data can shape ultimately the way…

— Sean Payton

23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.

— Anne Wojcicki

“If you don't take good care of your credit, then your credit won't take good care of you.”

— Tyler Gregory

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

— Henry M. Morris

There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information…

— Bill Crawford

When I'm sitting around watching a game with some friends, and we're all excited, and Jordan is driving in, we might say,…

— Stuart Scott

In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local…

— Evgeny Morozov

Second, you need to spread the large amount of information knowledge that you've gained-pooping like an elephant. This means sharing information and…

— Guy Kawasaki

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know…

— Kenneth Waltz

Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data…

— Monte Lipman

Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world.…

— Sergey Brin

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable…

— Richard Dawkins

Please be careful of becoming so immersed and engrossed in pixels, texting, ear buds, Twittering, online social networking, and potentially addictive uses…

— David A. Bednar

Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in…

— Andrew Greeley

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes.…

— Thomas R. Insel

The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are…

— Josiah Stamp

The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since…

— Udny Yule

“In a recent Harvard Business Review article we explore how companies require three mutually supportive capabilities to fully exploit data and analytics:…

— McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum

In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in…

— Arthur Kroker

To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible…

— Noam Chomsky

I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.

— Shahid Khan

“You got to get out into the field. Secondhand information in this world only takes you so far.”

— Sally J. Pla

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data…

— George Packer

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

— John Kennedy

There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

— Rick Rubin

“A pond full of information can sometimes be less useful than a cup full of insight”

— Gyan Nagpal

“Isn't it sad that we have to gain control of the artificial numbers placed upon us by others to regain some control…

— Rick Gregory

“all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.”

— Timothy Ferriss

“Invite your Data Science team to ask questions and assume any system, rule, or way of doing things is open to further…

— Damian Mingle

Every time I would talk about crypto, my analytics would go through the roof. The analytics went crazy.

— Francis X. Suarez

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

— Thomas Sowell

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

— Douglas Crockford

“Getting too deeply into statistics is like trying to quench a thirst with salty water.”

— Paul Kalanithi

They're [social media] amazing tools to communicate information - especially about different causes or crises or movements.

— Scarlett Johansson

It is not the job of government to collect and store vast amounts of biographical and biometric data belonging to innocent people.

— Damian Green

It's important to get the facts straight, a lot of information out there isn't right.

— Donna McKechnie