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We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information. -- Dee Hock
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. -- Elizabeth Holmes
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data. -- Eric Topol
A worldwide web of electronic connections now moves data at ever-increasing speed and volume along what we call the information superhighway. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding. -- Jose Ferreira
The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors. -- Maria Bartiromo
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
I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more. -- Terry J. Lundgren
We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood. -- Billy Beane
As we all become increasingly reliant on social networking websites and new technologies to stay connected, it's important to remain cognizant of how private personal information and data is handled. -- Michael Bennet
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
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
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
I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy. -- Marsha Blackburn
In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google. -- John Battelle
You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information. -- Bruce Sterling
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
So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products. -- John W. Thompson
Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college. -- Yolanda Adams
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together? -- Philip Green
The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information. -- James Comey
Data is not useful until it becomes information. -- Seth Godin
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom. -- Ian Lowe
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. -- Carly Fiorina
The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data! -- George Raveling
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. -- Daniel Keys Moran
Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. -- Clifford Stoll
Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing. -- Roger Kimball
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. -- Ram Dass
Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information. -- Nathan Shedroff
The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth. -- Patrick Dixon
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. -- John Naisbitt
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. -- Clifford Stoll
Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information. -- Curt Weldon
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information. -- Nancy Pearcey
The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning. -- Katherine McCoy
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin. -- Gijs de Vries
Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable. -- Hasan M. Elahi
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information -- Nancy Pearcey
Minds think with ideas, not information No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing power can substitute for inspired thought. -- Clifford Stoll
Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data. -- Henry Giroux
The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information, -- Eric Schmidt
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger. -- Arundhati Roy
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
Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information. -- Melissa Bean
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
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information. -- Mike Marsh
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources. -- Tim Ferriss
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed. -- Thomas W. Moore
I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions. -- Michael Dell
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws. -- Kevin Mitnick
Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed -- Thomas More
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information. -- Robert Scoble

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