Audience Quote by Kevin Spacey

The past is just data. I only see the future.

— Ayrton Senna

How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

— Clayton Christensen

The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out…

— Toni Morrison

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

— Dan Heath

I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.

— Hilary Mason

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and…

— David McCandless

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

— Kate Crawford

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

— Todd Park

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of…

— R. D. Laing

I think data is incredibly powerful for understanding what people are thinking and for allocating resources.

— Ted Cruz

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more…

— Stephen J. Dubner

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and…

— Ben Goldacre