Large numbers Quote by Jordan Ellenberg

“And the data is forgotten, once and forever...”

— Deyth Banger

“Cathy O’Neil claims that this reliance on historical data is a fundamental problem with many algorithmic systems: “Big data processes codify the past,” she…

— Sara Wachter-Boettcher

“It is too easy for the sheer mass of big data to overwhelm the sorts of healthy skepticism that is required to defeat deception.…

— Howard Wainer

“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have…

— Tom Perrotta

“The past is relevant only as data.”

— Richard K. Morgan

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled…

— Leonard Susskind

The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning.

— Jennifer Ashton

“Big data makes us feel as though we can and should know everything there is to know on earth. But this is a fool’s…

— Christian Madsbjerg

You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is…

— Bruce Sterling

“Everything is data! And with all this new data, we can finally see through people’s lies.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“People often think that the best way to predict the future is by collecting as much data as possible before making a decision. But…

— Clayton M. Christensen

“Information is not like money or any other commodity. The cracks that it can slip through are almost infinitely small, and it can be…

— David Brin