Best Data Quotes

#1. Our knowledge advances not when we have the best theory, or the best data, or the best lab, but when we have really good problems

Jay Rosen

#2. The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.

Arno Hintjens

#3. If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, hedge funds - we hope the world's best data scientists will earn more than $50 million per year, just like the world's best hedge fund managers.

Anthony Goldbloom

#4. Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Melissa Bean

#5. You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

Philip Green

#6. Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

Anthony Goldbloom

#7. If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

Emmett Shear

#8. Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.

Timothy Ferriss

#9. I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

Hilary Liftin

#10. The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.

Piers Corbyn

#11. Listening to the data is important ... but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?

Steve Lohr

#12. The United States will continue its efforts to improve our understanding of climate change - to seek hard data, accurate models, and new ways to improve the science - and determine how best to meet these tremendous challenges.

George H. W. Bush

#13. We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your Google search results because it's your future.

Jose Ferreira

#14. One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

Vinod Khosla

#15. We think we have the best matching algorithm, we think we have the best members. So why wouldn't we want to just shine the light onto just how our processes work, what the real data are, and let people come to their own conclusions.

Sam Yagan

#16. The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

George Raveling

#17. Data can generally travel the speed of light unless networks are congested. When there's congestion, usually the cheapest and best thing is simply to add capacity generally, not to prioritize certain sites over others.

Marvin Ammori

#18. The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information,

Eric Schmidt

#19. Humans simply aren't moved to action by 'data dumps,' dense PowerPoint slides, or spreadsheets packed with figures. People are moved by emotion. The best way to emotionally connect other people to our agenda begins with Once upon a time

Jonathan Gottschall

#20. We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best ... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

Sam Altman

#21. Get your product into users' hands as quickly as possible and incorporate the crowd's feedback to iterate. Your customers will provide the data you need to chart the best course for your company and bury any competitor that goes it alone.

Jay Samit

#22. Indeed, the line between perceiving and hallucinating is not as crisp as we like to think. In a sense, when we look at the world, we are hallucinating all the time. One could almost regard perception as the act of choosing the one hallucination that best fits the incoming data.

V.S. Ramachandran

#23. Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.

Ben Goldacre

#24. The best mobile phone had the best mathematician. They know how to fit a huge amount of data into a small amount of space. How to do things efficiently, how to do them cleverly.

Marcus Du Sautoy

#25. If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Seth Godin

#26. we learn the emotional habits that can undermine our best intentions, as well as what we can do to subdue our more destructive or self-defeating emotional impulses. Most important, the neurological data suggest a window of opportunity for shaping our children's emotional habits.

Daniel Goleman

#27. With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

Marissa Mayer

#28. I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

Ashton Kutcher

#29. The best scientific minds of the system were staring at the data with their jaws slack, and the reason no one was panicking yet was that no one could agree on what they should panic about.

James S.A. Corey

#30. The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

Megan Smith

#31. Here is yet another statement of the core idea of this book, that data concerning people is best thought of as people in disguise, and they're usually up to something.

Jaron Lanier

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

Robert J. Shiller

#33. The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

Matthew Humphreys