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On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves. — Nate Silver
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print… — Nate Silver
In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it. — Nate Silver
When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language.… — Zadie Smith
If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst… — Edward Snowden
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. — Thomas Sowell
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something,… — Thomas Sowell
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data… — James Surowiecki
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler
I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to… — Gary Vaynerchuk
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all… — Gary Vaynerchuk
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin. — Gijs de Vries
All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems… — Max Weber
On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel… — Julian Baggini
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data. — Francis Collins
The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly… — Geoff Mulgan
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. — Helen Fisher
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking… — Helen Fisher
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. — Evgeny Morozov
As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans… — Evgeny Morozov

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