I kept remembering something Michael Fertik had said to me at the Village Pub in Woodside. 'The biggest lie,' he said, 'is The Internet is about you. We like to think of ourselves as people who have choice and taste and personalized content. But the Internet isn't about us. It's about the companies that dominate the data flows of the Internet.
~ Jon Ronson
Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.
~ Amit Kalantri
The internet changed the world with data. Netiquette is making it a better place with information. NetworkEtiquette.net
~ David Chiles
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.
~ Hans Selye
If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.
~ Jim Barksdale
In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.
~ Alberto Cairo
The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.
If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
~ Edward R. Tufte
Losing some data is possible... after too much of it... everything remains possible.
~ Deyth Banger
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.
Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.
~ Ankala V Subbarao
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Failure is an amazing data point that tells you which direction not to go.
~ Payal Kadakia
I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.
~ John L. Phillips
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
~ Tim O'reilly
With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.
~ Peter Diamandis
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
~ Alex Berenson
Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing.
~ Ginni Rometty
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
Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.
~ Charles C. Mann
I took computers in high school. I would do all my own programming, but I didn't see the future of computers for anything other than data processing. Who was going to use a computer for communications?
~ Craig Hatkoff
I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
~ Ramez Naam
Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
~ Paul Samuelson
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
~ James Lovelock
A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
~ Clive Granger
Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.
~ Mike Pompeo
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
~ Abdus Salam
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.
~ Daniel Gilbert
We are ever on the threshold of new journeys and new discoveries. Can you imagine the excitement of the Wright brothers on the morning of that first flight? The anticipation of Jonas Salk as he analyzed the data that demonstrated a way to prevent polio?
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
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
Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.
~ Tom Chatfield
Watson augments human decision-making because it isn't governed by human boundaries. It draws together all this information and forms hypotheses, millions of them, and then tests them with all the data it can find. It learns over time what data is reliable, and that's part of its learning process.
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that's how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps.
~ Michele Bachmann
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
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
~ Jack Kevorkian
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
