Data Quotes · Page 58

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

— William James

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

— Patrick P. Gelsinger

Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your…

— Douglas Coupland

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

— Peter Drucker

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal…

— Mike Pence

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

— Michael Nielsen

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and…

— Al Franken

“Our values determine the metrics by which we measure ourselves and everyone else.”

— Mark Manson

At Deloitte, our programs for veterans are bringing new approaches to the table. For instance, we're helping veterans' organizations use data analytics…

— Cathy Engelbert

I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at…

— Dan Savage

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the…

— Ludwig von Mises

We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of…

— DJ Spooky

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce…

— Colin Powell

Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't…

— Aldous Huxley

“Qualitative versus quantitative metrics Qualitative metrics are unstructured, anecdotal, revealing, and hard to aggregate; quantitative metrics involve numbers and statistics, and provide…

— Alistair Croll

For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer…

— Sudha Murty

For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by…

— George E. P. Box

Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as…

— Lois P Frankel

Everywhere you turn, there are lists and statistics. Any business, any sport, any hobby - we will try to categorize who is…

— Michael Gerber

“Wesley Crusher: Say goodbye, Data. Lt. Cmdr. Data: Goodbye, Data. [crew laughs] Lt. Cmdr. Data: Was that funny? Wesley Crusher: [laughs] Lt.…

— Star Trek The Next Generation

It really was not that difficult a process, because I was playing [Data from Star Trek] something that doesn't exist. So it…

— Brent Spiner

The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To…

— David Deutsch

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

“For a company to innovate, it must create products and services that let consumers perform a job faster, better, more conveniently, and/or…

— Anthony Ulwick

“Performance metrics are number in context, results related to the strategic goals of the business.”

— Pearl Zhu

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from…

— Michael Jackson

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

— Katherine McCoy

How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

— Bill Gates

I love the idea of creators owning their audience data instead of platforms.

— Jack Conte

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

— Jan Carlzon

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

— Richard Saul Wurman

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

— Clara Shih

When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.

— Steve Eisman

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

— Steven McDonnell

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

— Kathy Calvin

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

— Anonymous

I am committed to doing whatever is necessary to protect our citizens and our state's data system.

— Kay Ivey

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

— Mitch Kapor

Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up…

— Jan Koum

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

— Fernando Torres