Action Quote by W. Edwards Deming

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with…

— W. Edwards Deming

Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing…

— Hilary Mason

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

— 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

We're guided by consumer data, and it helps give us the confidence to invest where the consumer is going.

— Steve Easterbrook

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

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

— Carly Fiorina

Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals,…

— Michael Palmer

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

— Robert J. Shiller

For me myself, I feel it's always interesting gathering data. I have my team who do that. I think they feed me through specific…

— Kevin Anderson

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

— Mark Twain

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

— Oren Etzioni