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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. -- Clifford Stoll
Data helps solve problems. -- Anne Wojcicki
Data that is loved tends to survive. -- Kurt Bollacker
Experts often possess more data than judgment. -- Colin Powell
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. -- Craig Mundie
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom. -- Ian Lowe
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. -- Tim Berners-Lee
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. -- Daniel Keys Moran
Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions? -- Patrick P. Gelsinger
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
Data is not intelligence. -- William Binney
Data without generalization is just gossip. -- Robert M. Pirsig
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Data is your eyes, not your brain. -- Colleen Jones
Data can actually make us more human. -- Aaron Koblin
Data is great, but strategy is better -- Steven Sinofsky
Data may disappoint, but it never lies. -- Jay Samit
Data really powers everything that we do. -- Jeff Weiner
Data Science wisdom comes only through failed experimentation. -- Damian Mingle
Data is not useful until it becomes information. -- Seth Godin
Data quality is corporate America's dirty little secret. -- Paul Gillin
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist. -- George V. Higgins
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist -- George V
Data about an innovative idea is rarely crystal clear. -- Scott D. Anthony
Data don't generate theory - only researchers do that. -- Henry Mintzberg
Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think. -- John Allen Paulos
Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot. -- Jay Samit
Data coming out our ears but we lack narrative. -- Roy Sekoff
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician. -- Nate Silver
Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions. -- Roger Lewin
Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil. -- David McCandless
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype. -- Oscar Wilde
Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses -- Karl Marx
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. -- Clifford Stoll
Data-intensive graph problems abound in the Life Science drug discovery and development process. -- Leroy Hood
Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct. -- Brent Spiner
Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing. -- Roger Kimball
If I'm not mistaken, I think Data was the comic relief on the show. -- Brent Spiner
Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts. -- Taiichi Ohno
Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data. -- Jonathan Zittrain
Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much. -- Jason Chaffetz
I love that the world is data intensive â?¦ unfortunately, it's called 'Big Data.' -- Werner Vogels
Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully. -- Ronald Coase
Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit. -- Todd Park
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to. -- Reid Hoffman
The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth? -- Bill Lee
Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent. -- Jerry Yang
Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking. -- Martin Lindstrom
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. -- Mark Twain
One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format. -- Steven McDonnell
I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.' -- Martin Winterkorn
Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful. -- Dan Heath
TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue. -- John Poindexter
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician. -- Robert Rodriguez
Small Data defines this space, identifies the imbalances we all have and thus the gap these imbalances represents for your new innovation. -- Martin Lindstrom
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
Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. -- Douglas Coupland
A journey of a Data Scientist is straightforward - start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. -- Damian Mingle
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
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories. -- Steven Levitt
Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed. -- Arthur Miller
War is ninety percent information. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Above all else show the data. -- Edward Tufte
What we have is a data glut. -- Vernor Vinge
Maybe stories are just data with a soul. -- Brene Brown
A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities. -- Kevin Mitnick
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. -- Carly Fiorina
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. -- Charles Babbage
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. -- Geoffrey Moore
The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways. -- Max Levchin
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. -- Helen Fisher
If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine. -- James L. Barksdale
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway. -- Geoffrey Moore
There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations. -- Stephen Covey
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Don't store unnecessary data, keep an eye on what's happening, and don't take unnecessary risks. -- Chris Bell
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
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. -- Learned Hand
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[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers. -- Helen Fisher
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
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. -- Howard Rheingold
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
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
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. -- Vladimir Putin
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. -- John Coleman
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful. -- Ben Parr
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
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
Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done. Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data. -- Marcus Buckingham
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
Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together. -- Tim Berners-Lee
The use of drones is rapidly transforming the way we go to war. On the battlefield, a squad leader can receive real-time data from a drone that enables him to view the landscape for miles in every direction, dramatically expanding the capabilities of what would normally have been a small and isolated unit. -- Michael Hastings
If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. -- Sebastian Thrun
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To clarify, *add* data. -- Edward R. Tufte
Consider data without prejudice. -- Thomas A. Edison
Certainty, not data, is knowledge. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Don't censor incoming data through denial. -- Deepak Chopra
You cannot write well without data. -- George V. Higgins
Hate is love without enough data. -- Richard Bach
Above all else show the data. -- Edward Tufte
Theories without data are like daydreams. -- Jonathan Rottenberg
Demagoguery beats data in making public policy. -- Dick Armey
One person's data is another person's noise. -- K.C. Cole
The world is one big data problem. -- Andrew McAfee
You and I are streaming data engines. -- Jeff Hawkins
More data is not always the answer. -- Alan Hirsch
The plural of anecdote is not data. -- Marc Bekoff
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The plural of anecdotes is not data -- Ben Goldacre
In God we trust; all others bring data. -- W. Edwards Deming
All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'. -- Norwood Russell Hanson
Digital data are more fragile than printed material. -- Robert Darnton
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The subconscious has good data and poor judgement. -- Sarah Thiessen
Maybe stories are just data with a soul. -- Brene Brown

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