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When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to…

— Adam Cohen

I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on…

— Oren Etzioni

We all know how the Internet has changed the lives of consumers: it's changed how we communicate, how we shop, how we meet people.…

— Maynard Webb

In the increasingly digital world, data is a valuable currency, yet as consumers, we control and own little of it. As consumers, we must…

— William Mougayar

“Crunching data is not an automatic ticket for success, any more than putting up a website turned every company in the dotcom era into…

— McKinsey Chief Marketing & Sales Officer Forum

Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.

— Michael J. Saylor

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

— Craig Mundie

Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung…

— Nicholas G. Carr

I had learnt from my years of being in the services business, like networking and closely watching the early days of the Internet, that…

— Peter Barris

I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry started downloading…

— Sergey Brin

I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a…

— James Altucher