History Quote by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

— Kate Crawford

There's a whole company called Palantir that does nothing but derive and create algorithms riches to search through big data. We're not using their…

— Carly Fiorina

“Big Data does not eliminate the need for all the other ways humans have developed over the millennia to understand the world. They complement…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

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

— Ayrton Senna

“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

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples…

— Jose Ferreira

“That’s how the Law of Large Numbers works: not by balancing out what’s already happened, but by diluting what’s already happened with new data,…

— Jordan Ellenberg

“Data religion now says that your every word and action is part of the great data flow, that the algorithms are constantly watching you…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it,…

— Dan Ariely

“Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database.”

— Jeffrey Needham

“IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated…

— Robert Scoble

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

— danah boyd