Data Quotes · Page 51

It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

— Payal Kadakia

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

— Bill Gates

“The kind of data and the data-analytical perspective privy to banks is quite unique to banks.”

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

— will.i.am

Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.

— Nikhil Saluja

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

— Jay Baer

Honestly, I've just been trying to improve all parts of my game, and a statistic is just a statistic.

— Lindsey Horan

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

— Adam Davidson

We should have companies required to get the consent of individuals before collecting their data, and we should have as individuals the…

— Ro Khanna

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop,…

— Barton Gellman

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

— Douglas Merrill

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and…

— Lee H. Hamilton

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the…

— Raymond Simard

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly…

— Marvin Olasky

“Data: My positronic brain has several layers of shielding to protect me from power surges. It would be possible for you to…

— Star Trek The Next Generation

A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess…

— Edwin Powell Hubble

If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer.…

— Eric Topol

What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is…

— Gregory Bateson

Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible…

— Immanuel Kant

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation…

— Daniel Levitin

The market won't let us treat all data equally because there's a potential to make huge gobs of money not doing that.…

— Astra Taylor

The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann...for the estimation of temperature from 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors,…

— Steve McIntyre

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible…

— Thomas Moore

I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block…

— Gavin Andresen

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!”

— Max Tegmark

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites.

— Jeff Goodell

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

— Clay Shirky

Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

— Eben Moglen

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.

— Paul Bloom

Based on census data from 2019, black women are only paid 61 cents to every dollar that a white man makes.

— Meena Harris

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified…

— Ronald Reagan

I try not to look too much into statistics. I think that can kind of skew or throw you off from what…

— Justin Herbert

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

— David Ogden Stiers

As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.

— Alexander Nix

“I'm a scientist. It's not about sides or parties; I'm with whoever has the best data.”

— Anonymous

While traditional BI is interested in the 'what and the where,' data scientists are interested in the 'how and why'.

— Amit Priyavadan Mehta

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

— Kate Crawford

I think of myself as a translator. I just change the dry, unfeeling language of data into a visual language that allows…

— Chris Jordan

I only use statistics to reinforce what I already think, or if it's something unusual.

— Dean Smith