Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends…

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that…

— Douglas Merrill

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

— Geoffrey Moore

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

— Patrick P. Gelsinger

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

— Douglas Merrill

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about…

— Satya Nadella

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

— Hal Varian

“All businesses could use a garden where Data Scientists plant seeds of possibility and water them with collaboration.”

— Damian Mingle

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

— Vinod Khosla

Data that is loved tends to survive.

— Kurt Bollacker

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

— Ian Lowe

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

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

— Damian Mingle

“I foresee the next wave of revenue growth in corporate America will come directly from Data Science.”

— Ken Poirot

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Data Scientists should recall innovation often times is not providing fancy algorithms, but rather value to the customer.”

— Damian Mingle