Data Quotes · Page 38

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

— Bill Gates

“How much power is enough power, particularly now when data is power! What's the point of power and data, if they just…

— Abhijit Naskar

Individuals should be able to monetise their own data - that's their own human value - not to be exploited.

— Brittany Kaiser

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

— Frank Herbert

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

— Edward Tufte

Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

— Jeff Lindsay

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

— Evan Esar

If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

“chief executive of Google, reckoned in 2010 that about five exabytes of data, or the equivalent of 250,000 years of DVD-quality video,…

— Portfolio Penguin

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the…

— John Kasich

Fortunately, in Piramal Enterprises, we are in three broad sectors. One is in the whole financial services sector, the second is in…

— Ajay Piramal

Since the beginning of the internet era, it has been pretty widely accepted that when you join an online service, whatever data…

— Daniel Lyons

If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epidemiological…

— Richard Bentall

Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I…

— Sheryl Sandberg

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of…

— Herbert Simon

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets,…

— Lewis Thomas

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known,…

— Frances Wright

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like…

— John Perry Barlow

Molecular genetics can show off some surprising relationships like, for example, the close relationship of whales to hippopotamuses, which I think nobody…

— Richard Dawkins

“That the volume of information, of data, of judgements, of measurements, was too much, and there were too many people, and too…

— Dave Eggers

“Information is the atmosphere—what the philosopher Luciano Floridi calls the infosphere—of our lives.7 But the fact that we live in the infosphere,…

— Michael P. Lynch

We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived.…

— Winston Churchill

Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming…

— Stephen Covey

“People outsourced their memories to data centers and basic skills to tabs.”

— David Mitchell

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance…

— Anonymous

“There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.”

— Andrew Kantor

It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.

— Alan Perlis

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a…

— Annie E. Clark

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

— Paul Dickson

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

— Ralph Nader

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

— Peter Norvig

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

— Heinz Pagels

The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

— Barry Ritholtz

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

— Anna Eshoo

“We need only record and connect our experiences to the great data flow, and the algorithms will discover their meaning and tell…

— Yuval Noah Harari

What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data…

— Eva Moskowitz

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

— Hilary Mason

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

— Aleister Crowley

Nothing beats standing in the middle of the action, with all the data I need at my fingertips

— Betty Liu