Data Quotes

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In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating… — Evgeny Morozov
The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public… — Evgeny Morozov
As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which… — Douglas Rushkoff
Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And… — Douglas Rushkoff
Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making… — Douglas Rushkoff
No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products… — Douglas Rushkoff
Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our… — Douglas Rushkoff
The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to… — Douglas Rushkoff
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what… — Douglas Rushkoff
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is… — Edward Said
In God we trust; all others bring data. — W. Edwards Deming
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, â€˜delusionsâ€™ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry… — Thomas Pynchon
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and… — Sigmund Freud
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. — Ram Dass
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 what is hidden… — Thomas Moore
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange… — William Gibson
Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger… — William P. Young

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