“In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a… — Marcia Conner Copy Share Image
A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great dataflow, that the algorithms are constantly watching… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me.… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
“Shelfspace, number of facings, position, local promotion, advertising, information from scanning data and choice of new products are all key assets for… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense?… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we… — Merton Miller Copy Share Image
The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It's been said that if NASA wanted to go to the moon again, it would have to start from scratch, having lost… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple?… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
You go to a Japanese restaurant and have a wonderful dish, and the thing to do is take a picture with your… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think it's a good idea to be - to fairly identify where things could have gone better once you get the… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
I usually just try to do whatever's on the page because I've done research before - including a lot of analysis -… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
By converging people, process, and data, the benefits the Internet of Everything delivers to humanity are seemingly infinite. Imagine being able to… — Tae Yoo Copy Share Image
In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence… — John Tukey Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
What I saw during the Hillary Clinton campaign [2016] with data dummies who were more concerned with polls than people, they were… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“...there's an inverse relationship between frequency and information content...It doesn't do you much good to understand 80% of the word in a… — Mark Rosenfelder Copy Share Image
When you look at all this massive data that comes in from our senses, and it all has to come in through… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed,… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster… — Shawn Fanning Copy Share Image
Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in… — Morris H. DeGroot Copy Share Image