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With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer. -- Marissa Mayer
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. -- Nick Bostrom
The number of maternal deaths is significantly understated because of a lack of effective data collection both in the US and around the world. -- Robin Lim
Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference. -- Bill Gates
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. -- Rand Paul
We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals. -- John Kasich
Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance. -- Michael Shermer
I don't think bulk data collection was an enormous factor here, because generally, that deals with overseas calls to the United States. But what bulk data collection did was make the process more efficient. So there were no silver bullets there. -- Michael Leiter
The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so. -- Ted Cruz
The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets. -- Astra Taylor
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
There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about. -- Aaron Koblin
There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense. -- Jackie Speier
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie. -- Nate Silver
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. -- Thomas Kuhn
We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web. -- DJ Spooky

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