Data Quotes · Page 55

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.”

— Jud H. Copeland Brian C. O'Connor Jodi L. Kearns

You can use data wrong. It's just like polling. There have been a lot of politicians who go conduct a poll to…

— Ted Cruz

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.

— Ward Cunningham

The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.

— Gary Kovacs

Every piece of data that I can gather before we kick the ball off to start the game can certainly be helpful.

— Justin Tucker

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

— Adam McKay

“Our data-management services can be the beginning of an effective planning and implementation of a strong data-management system for your business.

— Anonymous

We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at…

— Sunil Nagaraj

I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing…

— Jackie French

The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only…

— Clayton M. Christensen

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them.…

— Laurel Clark

First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we…

— Safra A. Catz

The tech giants so eager to assert control over what is allowed to be shared don't have a great track record when…

— Brian Mast

If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data…

— Anthony Goldbloom

“information does not consist of energy, and leadership is all about energy, about making an impact. Basing leadership on information theory disempowers…

— Edwin H Friedman

Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next…

— Steve Martin

Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have…

— Hannes Alfven

The power of understanding symbols, i.e. of regarding everything about a sense-datum as irrelevant except a certain form that it embodies, is…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to…

— John Dewey

I'm very conscious of data and analytics, and understanding how our body works and different loads that we put on it throughout…

— Stephen Curry

I'm here to encourage everyone to look at the data themselves, not just buy what they're told. I find that my standards…

— Walter Cunningham

Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with…

— Keith Devlin

There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local…

— Edward S. Herman

“All statistics have outliers. Money management, therefore, is key to the process of good trading.”

— Yvan Byeajee

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at…

— Steve Jobs

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

— Nick Bostrom

It is what you know that will make a way for you or make room for you. Information is a consistent breakthrough…

— Prodigy

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

— Michael Faraday

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

— Aaron Swartz

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

— Irwin Redlener

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

— Drew Barrymore

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

— Evan Esar

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

— Geoffrey West

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

— Damian Mingle

“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.”

— Tom Boellstorff

“Information and knowledge: these are currencies that have never gone out of style.”

— Neil Gaiman

“We have an information economy that’s dependent on complex systems that change rapidly.”

— Cal Newport

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.

— Jodi Picoult

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

— Aneel Bhusri