Data Quotes · Page 61

For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

— Heather Brooke

“Data Scientists should refuse to be defined by someone else's vision of what's possible.”

— Damian Mingle

Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a…

— Alex Berenson

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot…

— Douglas Rushkoff

It is my job to know the difference between information and intelligence.

— Will Hurd

I love that the world is data intensive … unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

— Werner Vogels

What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost…

— Albert Einstein

How reliable are the computer [climate] models on which possible future climates are based? Not very. All will agree that the task…

— Don Aitkin

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

— Eric Schmidt

Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.

— Anna Eshoo

Every 2 days we create as much information as we did up to 2003.

— Eric Schmidt

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is…

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

— John C. Bogle

On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of…

— Anatol Rapoport

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized,…

— Francis Galton

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

— Anna Politkovskaya

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

— Seth Godin

If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which…

— Hardin B. Jones

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

— Dick Armey

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.

— Adam McKay

Too much information is bad.

— Mazher

With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does…

— Walter Willett

Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language…

— Spencer Wells

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“If you’re good at data analytics but you don’t have this feel for the business, you’ll make naïve decisions.”

— McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum

By using big data, it will also be possible to predict adverse weather conditions, rerouting ships to avoid delays, and monitor fuel…

— Soren Skou

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…

— Alison Gopnik

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

— Fred Hoyle

Learn the basics of analytics and people will love you. If you don't have time to learn, hire someone.

— W. Edwards Deming

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of…

— Anthony Kennedy

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data…

— Anonymous

Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective…

— Brad Stone

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

— Clay Shirky

'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace…

— Pico Iyer

If teaching is reduced to mere data transmission, if there is no sharing or excitement and wonder, if teachers themselves are passive…

— Paul Lockhart

Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data…

— Nicholas Lore

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

— Florence Nightingale

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

— Cecily Strong

Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much…

— Natalie Jeremijenko

“Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.”

— Randy Bartlett