Data Quote by Peter Norvig

As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of…

— John Battelle

We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

— Peter Norvig

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is…

— Niall Ferguson

In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the…

— John Tukey

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

— James D. Watson

The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways…

— George H. W. Bush

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data…

— Edward Snowden

Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent…

— Nate Silver

Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be…

— Seth Klarman

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl

But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff…

— Clayton Christensen

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort