When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Information about the package is as important as the package itself. — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
You can shape statistics to make them look however you want them to. — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
“Facts and information are the nourishment, the lifeblood, the raison d'etre, and also the bane and despair of librarians and researchers.” — Kee Malesky Copy Share Image
There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That's just… — Tom Rath Copy Share Image
When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
“All too often the practice of analytics provides answers without knowing the questions.” — Dwight McNeill Copy Share Image
“They say statistics by their nature don’t lie, but in my opinion they sometimes do and damnably at that.” — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who… — Matthew Humphreys Copy Share Image
E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data -… — Randall L. Stephenson Copy Share Image
These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and… — Leland Yee Copy Share Image
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We need a new generation of executives who understand how to manage and lead through data. And we also need a new… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
When I got out of undergrad, I had a degree in theater and telecommunications. My first job, I was a news reporter… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic… — Jesse Bering Copy Share Image
The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security… — William Davis Copy Share Image
When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
“Information is a significant component of most organizations’ competitive strategy either by the direct collection, management, and interpretation of business information or… — The IIA Research Foundation Copy Share Image
PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University… — Martin Wolf Copy Share Image
Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image