Top 100 Data Is Quotes
#1. Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.
Deyth Banger
#2. Plan your taxes, DO NOT avoid any taxes. Tax authorities have evolved and are using information technology to collect and analyze the data and also issue notices. See AIR to SoFTRA to know more about how and what data is collected and used.
Jigar Patel
#3. Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee
#4. What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.
Steven Johnson
#5. Gender data is important. If girls don't have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?
Kathy Calvin
#6. If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.
Daniel Suarez
#7. Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.
Ruchi Sanghvi
#8. We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.
Pearl Zhu
#9. In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
Barton Gellman
#10. The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.
Daniel Keys Moran
#11. It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?
Bill Ford
#12. Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
#13. Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.
Taiichi Ohno
#14. Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
Peter Thiel
#15. Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
Rick Smolan
#16. My analyses and conclusions differ diametrically from those of the Southern Research Institute/National Cancer Institute report wherein it is concluded that amygdalin 'does not possess activity in the Lewis lung carcinoma system.'. My analysis of the data is that it is overwhelmingly positive.
Dean Burk
#17. The data is clear: If you give a woman an opportunity, she will make a huge difference.
Carly Fiorina
#18. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.
Masayoshi Son
#19. In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.
Leonard Mlodinow
#20. Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.
Brent Spiner
#21. According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Luis Gutierrez
#22. The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
W. Edwards Deming
#23. Real data is messy ... It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!
Tom Stoppard
#24. Sometimes the only solution when the data is very noisy - is to focus more on process than on results.
Nate Silver
#25. One person's data is another person's noise.
K.C. Cole
#26. We tend to assume that data is either private or public, either owned by one person or shared by many. In fact there's more to it than that, above and beyond the upsetting reality that private data is now anything but.
Nick Harkaway
#27. Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.
Barbara Holland
#28. I often calculate odds on horse races; the civil service computermen frequently program such requests. But the results are so at variance with expectations that I have concluded either that the data is too meager, or the horses or riders are not honest. Possibly all three.
Robert A. Heinlein
#29. Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
Mark Twain
#31. Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.
Phil Zuckerman
#32. Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.
Todd Park
#33. Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.
Ginni Rometty
#34. In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.
Victoria Pendleton
#35. What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.
Marissa Mayer
#36. One might ask why big business data is still so often used on faith, even after it has failed spectacularly. The answer is of course that big business data happens to facilitate superquick and vast near-term accumulations of wealth and influence.
Jaron Lanier
#37. data is becoming a new asset class - one that may trump previous asset classes. Another
Don Tapscott
#38. Big data is the most disruptive force this industry has seen since the introduction of the relational database.
Jeffrey Needham
#39. The problem with data is that it says a lot, but it also says nothing. 'Big data' is terrific, but it's usually thin. To understand why something is happening, we have to engage in both forensics and guess work.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#40. People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
Gary Wolf
#41. As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
Evgeny Morozov
#42. Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.
Seth Berkley
#43. Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.
George Henry Lewes
#44. In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Adam Savage
#45. Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
Ben Goldacre
#46. The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.
Bruce Jackson
#47. [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#48. As business leaders we need to understand that lack of data is not the issue. Most businesses have more than enough data to use constructively; we just don't know how to use it. The reality is that most businesses are already data rich, but insight poor.
Bernard Marr
#49. Big data is transitioning from a tool primarily for targeted advertising to an instrument with profound applications for diverse corporate sectors and for addressing chronic social problems.
Alec J. Ross
#50. Data is not useful until it becomes information.
Seth Godin
#51. Instincts are experiments. Data is proof.
Anonymous
#53. Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.
Nate Silver
#54. One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior
Laszlo Bock
#55. Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.
Bruce Schneier
#57. No data are excluded on subjective or arbitrary grounds. No one piece of data is more highly valued than another. The consequences of this policy have to be accepted, even if they prove awkward.
Jennifer K. McArthur
#58. Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.
Dan Ariely
#59. I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.
Kent Beck
#60. And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do
if there's enough of it
is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
Esther Duflo
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. big data is usually dumb data.
Anonymous
#64. It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there.
Andrea Barthwell
#66. Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.
Chris Lynch
#67. The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category..
Tavis Smiley
#68. We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.
Randall Terry
#69. I also get a perverse pleasure from correcting students who refer to an important piece of data or write that this data is important. (Data is the plural of datum, I tell them, so one ought to say, The datum is important; The data are important.) Yet
Steven Pinker
#70. One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.
Craig Venter
#71. The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
Evan Davis
#72. Size doesn't matter, fast data is better than big data
Hilary Mason
#73. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.
Maurice Allais
#74. The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
Clayton M Christensen
#76. History that is presented only as ink-embalmed data is as a flower pressed in a book. Although the dry petals still hold all the elements of the original flower, they cannot show us how it looked blooming in the field. The color and fragrance - the true reality - or the flowers are gone.
Rex Alan Smith
#77. Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?
Patrick P. Gelsinger
#78. As long as research data is stored as tacit knowledge in people's minds or buried in interview transcripts, teams will experience difficulty synthesizing what has been observed and learned.
Bella Martin
#79. Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
Henry Mintzberg
#80. The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end,
Charles Wheelan
#82. One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go to an industry confab and get the list of what was talked about. Then ask, "What did people never talk about?" That's where you're going to find opportunity.
Gary Hamel
#83. My answer to someone who is in contrast with me - by not seeing God in the scientific data - is that you don't see God in the scientific data because you're not me. I have other experiences than you have, that bring me to look at this data as enriching my experience of God.
George Coyne
#85. In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.
C.S. Friedman
#88. Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there's an emotional trend to what's selling.
Mickey Drexler
#89. As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used.
Rick Smolan
#90. We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]
Maurice Levy
#91. I've never been good with people. I've always preferred my lab. I like data. Data is consistent, it's steady, it's easy to understand. With data, you always know what the answer is.
Becky Chambers
#92. Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next.
Daniel Suarez
#93. Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
Barry Ritholtz
#94. Photographic data ... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
Salvador Dali
#95. The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.
James Comey
#96. Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#98. Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.
Anthony Goldbloom
#99. Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
Jonathan Zittrain
#100. The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.
Emily Oster
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