Quotes About Big Data

#1. With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real ... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

Douglas Merrill

#2. The human side of analytics is the biggest challenge to implementing big data.

Paul Gibbons

#3. Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

Patrick P. Gelsinger

#4. I am completely opposed to the concept of big data.

Chris Toumazou

#5. Scanadu is right at the heart of the next generation of computing, which combines mobility, sensors, cloud and big data. I am bullish on Scanadu and its potential to revolutionize the way we think about our health.

Jerry Yang

#6. Size doesn't matter, fast data is better than big data

Hilary Mason

#7. The fashionable term now is "Big Data." IBM estimates that we are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, more than 90 percent of which was created in the last two years.36

Nate Silver

#8. 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

#9. I love that the world is data intensive ... unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.'

Werner Vogels

#10. Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Tom Chatfield

#11. big data is usually dumb data.

Anonymous

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Rick Smolan

#15. 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 capabilities. For heaven's sake, some of this is just ineptitude.

Carly Fiorina

#16. It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.

Raph Koster

#17. predictive Analytics enabled the Big Data to deliver the actual usage and value to the businesses by putting the processed information to a real use.

Salvatore Gaukroger

#18. 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 of big data from before the Internet.

Jose Ferreira

#19. I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

Martin Winterkorn

#20. Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.

Jose Ferreira

#21. GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

Jack Dangermond

#22. Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

Jerry Yang

#23. Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.

Dov Seidman

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

Danah Boyd

#25. Automation, big data and mobile are massive trends that will change the way we communicate from a Content Marketing perspective for years to come.

Communicate And Sell

#26. Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.

Ryan Holmes

#27. Big data will never give you big ideas ... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

Margaret Heffernan

#28. 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

#29. The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#30. Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

Geoffrey Moore

#31. Some of the pictures in 'The Human Face of Big Data' will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family.

Rick Smolan

#32. The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Rick Smolan

#33. When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Nate Silver

#34. Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

Peter Thiel

#35. We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

Oscar Wilde

#36. As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.

Arianna Huffington

#37. Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

Evgeny Morozov

#38. By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.

Clayton M Christensen

#39. Why don't I talk about Big Data? Because I am focused on intelligent answers and not speeds and feeds. It doesn't matter if it is quick if it's the wrong answer.

Michael J. Saylor

#40. New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.

Hasso Plattner

#41. The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future

Steve Lohr

#42. Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

Rick Smolan

#43. 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

#44. 'Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.

Rick Smolan

#45. In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.

Carly Fiorina

#46. Google and Facebook don't have "users" or "customers". Instead, they have participants under machine surveillance, whose activities are algorithmically combined within Big Data silos.

Bruce Sterling

#47. We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.

Pearl Zhu

#48. Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

Thomas H. Davenport

#49. The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.

Jay Baer

#50. Is the marketing effort designed to convey the candidate's convictions, or are the convictions expressed by the candidate the reflections of a "big data" research effort into individuals' likely preferences and prejudices?

Henry Kissinger

#51. Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

Geoffrey Moore

#52. The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

Bill Lee

#53. As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

Douglas Rushkoff

#54. The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

Marc Benioff

#55. Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

Ginni Rometty

#56. There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future.

Rick Smolan

#57. One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

Steven McDonnell

#58. Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors

Vinod Khosla

#59. Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

Karl Marx

#60. People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Gary Wolf

#61. 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

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

Jeffrey Needham

#63. If Big Data's two running stories have been surveillance and money, for the last three years I've been working on a third: the human story.

Christian Rudder

#64. Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

Ginni Rometty

#65. You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

Rick Smolan

#66. 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

#67. A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality

Friedrich Engels

#68. As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

Aaron Koblin

#69. We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#70. Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

Tom Boellstorff

#71. The bigger problem is this: Logic can be tweaked to say anything you want it to say. Only guts tell the truth, and your gut says this could be big if you can get the momentum you need. Your gut is processing all the data from everywhere. And the idea feels good.

Leela Sinha M.Div.

#72. The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

Padmasree Warrior

#73. Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Robert Scoble

#74. When Git needs to create a working directory, it says to the filesystem: "Hey! I have this big blob of data that is supposed to be placed at pathname path/to/directory/file.

Jon Loeliger

#75. 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

#76. Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Stephen Hawking

#77. The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.

Austan Goolsbee

#78. It is really hurting; how big media plagiarize everyday and no one judges them; The real heroes are those tiny and small self-funded websites and blogs that provide all primary data for them to survive and it will continue as far they exist

M.F. Moonzajer

#79. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

Arthur C. Brooks

#80. We classify things for the purpose of doing something to them. Any classification which does not assist manipulation is worse than useless.

Randolph Bourne

#81. 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

#82. Have you noticed the people most likely to be up in arms about governments apparently spying on us tend to be the most non-private people you know? The people launching petitions and wailing about Big Brother and data collection are most likely to be the most constant self-presenters.

Russell Smith

#83. 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

#84. More data - such as paying attention to the eye colors of the people around when crossing the street - can make you miss the big truck.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#85. I'm not brave. I'm just incredibly observant." Steve has discovered that the more you observe, the more data you collect, the more patterns you see, and the more boldly you can act. As Steve would say, "This is a big idea!"3

Tina Seelig

#86. The key to a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms is not an exhaustive survey of every conceivable data structure and its subforms, with memorization of each's Big-O value and amortized cost.

Robert Love

#87. Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

Jamais Cascio

#88. Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government.

Arthur C. Brooks

#89. Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

Alex Berenson

#90. Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.

Sandy Carter

#91. To clarify, *add* data.

Edward R. Tufte

#92. When you're reading a novel, I think the reason you care about how any given plot turns out is that you take it as a data point in the big story of how the world works. Does such-and-such a kind of guy get the girl in the end? Does adultery ever bring happiness? How do winners become winners?

Elif Batuman

#93. Although the method is simple, it shows how, mathematically, random brute force can overcome precise logic. It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.

Liu Cixin