Data Quotes · Page 46

My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

— Jay Mohr

Either data supports the observations or they don't. Voting doesn't work in science.

— Alan Stern

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

— Tom Clancy

I don't believe in data-driven anything, it's the most stupid phrase. Data should always serve people, people should never serve data.

— Christopher Wylie

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the…

— Lando Norris

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

— Mark Twain

Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.

— Matt Mullenweg

We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is…

— Hal Varian

Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming…

— Rick Doblin

Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to…

— David Rose

“The non-scientist in the street probably has a clearer notion of physics, chemistry and biology than of statistics, regarding statisticians as numerical…

— Stephen Senn

We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been…

— Laurel Clark

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct…

— Paul Hawken

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data…

— Anonymous

I have never left the company. I keep a tiny residual salary to this day because that's where my loyalty should be…

— Steve Wozniak

Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your…

— Jason Dufner

The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers…

— Richard E. Berendzen

If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice…

— Andrew Gelman

The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University…

— Martin Wolf

I was a musician who began playing with computers, to see if they could make some tasks simpler. I developed some "tricks"…

— Kurt Ralske

“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

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

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…

— Anonymous

When The Daily Muse initially wanted to launch a job board, our first ideas were insanely (and needlessly) complex. We wanted to…

— Kathryn Minshew

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

— Tim Berners-Lee

“Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.”

— Charles Wheelan

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

— Eric Topol

I love the idea of creators owning their audience data instead of platforms.

— Jack Conte

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

— Clara Shih

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

— Jan Carlzon

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

— Richard Saul Wurman

When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.

— Steve Eisman

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

— Anonymous

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

— Kathy Calvin

One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

— Steven McDonnell

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it…

— Kevin Mitnick

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

— Homer

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The…

— Steven Johnson

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

— Fernando Torres

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

— Mitch Kapor