Top 100 Quotes About Data
#1. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
Charles Wheelan
#2. Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward De Bono
#3. Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.
Tony Fadell
#4. You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
Alvin Toffler
#6. For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be picked up.
Caroline Myss
#7. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
David McCandless
#8. What data did you notice about the week, what stood out for you? What were your emotional reactions to the week? What made you happy? Where were you challenged? Where were you frustrated? What were your insights? What did you learn? What one or two things will you do based on this week?
Anonymous
#9. If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.
Peter Lynch
#10. All these subprime companies were calling and hollering at him: You're wrong. Your data's wrong. And he just hollered back at them, 'It's YOUR fucking data!
Michael Lewis
#11. Lithium is like a beautiful lady, very much sought and pursued, especially in Bolivia. There is data indicating Bolivia has the largest reserves of lithium in the world.
Evo Morales
#12. Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.
Larry Ellison
#13. What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
David McCandless
#14. A data bank holding all the information that is in this universe can be found in God
Sunday Adelaja
#15. What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis" -- The Calorie Man
James Patrick Kelly
#17. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.
Michael Healy
#18. And many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem cause the science doesn't back them up. And in particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there's been zero warming. None whatsoever.
Ted Cruz
#19. If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.
Peter Sagal
#20. The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos.
Alberto Cairo
#21. Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
David Boies
#22. Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
Clive Granger
#23. 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
#24. Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.
Deyth Banger
#25. We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage ... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.
Mark Zuckerberg
#26. Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.
Roger Lewin
#27. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
Hans Rosling
#28. 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
#29. Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.
Mike Pence
#30. I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.
T. Colin Campbell
#31. good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.
Tom Clancy
#32. 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
#33. Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
Nate Silver
#34. 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
#35. Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.
Linus Torvalds
#36. The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research ...
Paul Driessen
#37. That type of analysis could include data from training staffs and coaching staffs, performance data, and medical data.
Benjamin C. Alamar
#38. Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee
#39. All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all.
C.S. Friedman
#40. 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
#41. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
Paul Saffo
#42. What your opponent wants you to think is useful data in figuring out what they think. So get the early draft, okay?
James S.A. Corey
#43. Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.
Dave Eggers
#44. Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
Barton Gellman
#45. Anything that can unambiguously represent two values - while resisting, just a wee bit, randomly flipping from the state you want retained into the opposite state - can encode binary data.
Edward M. Lerner
#47. You'll notice something interesting about the way scientists think: they don't start with data. They start with a hypothesis. Then they go to the data.
John Braddock
#48. Parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.
Sheryl Sandberg
#49. Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
Robert J. Shiller
#50. I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.
Al Franken
#51. The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.
Jay Baer
#52. No compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism.
Stephen Jay Gould
#53. freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin', and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away. It is.
Walter Isaacson
#54. We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
#55. I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.
Kevin Jorgeson
#56. The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage
#57. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
W. Edwards Deming
#59. It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.
Steven D. Levitt
#60. Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.
Jefferson Han
#61. There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
Robert Anton Wilson
#62. The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
Geoffrey West
#63. Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.
Scott Adams
#64. Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules ... data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.
L. Ron Hubbard
#65. Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.
Thomas H. Davenport
#66. Hence paradoxically, as we accumulate more data and increase our computing power, events become wilder and more unexpected.
Yuval Noah Harari
#67. It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
Maelle Gavet
#68. What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is about proper directions and understanding the data.
Deyth Banger
#69. We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.
Larry Page
#70. If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.
Gisela Hausmann
#71. Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.
Richard Hamming
#72. But even if you thought they were adequate at the time, when you're collecting data in bulk-you've got it. The data lasts until you delete it; the rules only last until you decide to change them, and change them in secret.
Julian Sanchez
#73. People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
Margaret Millar
#74. Never theorize before you have data.Invariably you end up twisting facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts.
-Sherlock holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
#75. durable. Guidelines to start the MPS portrait In this session we start with the first step: collecting data from others. From this range of feedback you will learn important things about yourself: The responses from your contacts will
Juan Humberto Young
#76. What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.
Albert Einstein
#77. The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
Barry Ritholtz
#78. The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.
Sol Luckman
#79. Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.
Rick Doblin
#80. I would rather have racing without computers. The human side is forgotten, and instead of talking over what's happening and just trusting the feel of the driver, the data becomes almost more important.
Jacques Villeneuve
#81. Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.
Michael Nielsen
#82. The shell model, although proposed by theoreticians, really corresponds to the experimentalist's approach. It was born from a thorough study of the experimental data, plotting them in different ways, and looking for interconnections.
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
#83. if you want to work on data covering more than about one month you're supposed to phone Mr. Jobsworth at BT and whine for help.
Charles Stross
#84. Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.
Ben Bernanke
#85. We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.
Noreena Hertz
#87. The inadequacy of unidimensional plotting along a continuum (in this case the diagonal of a symmetric matrix) inevitably would make "buffer" elements appear non-conformist when in fact they may be part of an interconnected pattern.
Jennifer K. McArthur
#88. I got entangled in my own data, and my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea from which I start. Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism. I will add, however, that apart from my solution of the social formula, there can be no other.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#89. There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.
Andrew Greeley
#90. The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
Michael Behe
#91. The former secretary of State is the nominee. She is also the Willie Sutton of classified data. And there is going to be a long-term effort of Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, to paint her into the corner.
Hugh Hewitt
#92. The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.
R.D. Laing
#93. Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
Ram Dass
#94. People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.
Steve Largent
#95. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
Emily Oster
#96. Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.
Orson Scott Card
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.
Keith Briffa
#100. If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
Nate Silver
