Quotes About Data And Knowledge

#1. Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Richard Saul Wurman

#2. 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

#3. Trivia are not knowledge. Lists of facts don't comprise knowledge. Analyzing, hypothesizing, concluding from data, sharing insights, those comprise knowledge. You can't google for knowledge.

Elaine Ostrach Chaika

#4. Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

Robert Love

#5. Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Niall Ferguson

#6. I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so - but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ.

Dan Simmons

#7. Unfortunately, while people were drowning in data, knowledge was nowhere

Anonymous

#8. It is vital to remember that information
in the sense of raw data
is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Arthur C. Clarke

#9. 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

#10. What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

George Carlin

#11. If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.

J. Budziszewski

#12. What makes him successful is the way that he analyzes information. He is not just hunting for patterns. Instead, Bob combines his knowledge of statistics with his knowledge of basketball in order to identify meaningful relationships in the data.

Nate Silver

#13. Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however, can only be gained through obedience. Thus, knowledge is a prerequisite to and foundation for true spiritual intelligence.

David A. Bednar

#14. Certainty, not data, is knowledge.

L. Ron Hubbard

#15. The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Nick Bostrom

#17. The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom ... Be wise.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#18. Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.

Stephen Few

#19. The Scientific Revolution proposed a very different formula for knowledge: Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics. If we want to know the answer to some question, we need to gather relevant empirical data, and then use mathematical tools to analyse the data. For

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

#21. If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. they realized that all the published data was wrong - "little better than guesswork" - they had also discovered what knowledge was needed to design wings that would fly.

Kevin Ashton

#23. I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

Amelia Earhart

#24. Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

Peter Medawar

#25. Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow.

Pearl Zhu

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Ram Dass

#29. Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. This is the paradox of historical knowledge. Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour loses its relevance. The more data we have and the better we understand history, the faster history alters its course, and the faster our knowledge becomes outdated.

Yuval Noah Harari

#33. What we're experiencing is, in a metaphorical sense, a reversal of the early trajectory of civilization: we are evolving from being cultivators of personal knowledge to being hunters and gatherers in the electronic data forest.

Nicholas Carr

#34. 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

#35. Data itself ... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.

Dan Simmons

#36. Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Peter Drucker

#37. As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Laurel Clark

#38. Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

Nancy Pearcey

#39. Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Dee Hock

#40. You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

Michael Hintze

#41. The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

David Weinberger

#42. In Lock splitting we use different locks for different parts of the application. In Lock striping we use multiple locks to protect different parts of the same data structure. ConcurrentHashMap

Knowledge Powerhouse

#43. I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.

George Coyne

#44. 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

#45. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

Ronald Coase

#46. In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

James Clerk Maxwell