Quotes About Data

One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.

Praxeology - economics - provides no ultimate ethical judgments: it simply furnishes the indispensable data necessary to make such judgments.

What's different with Cambridge Analytica and more broadly with social media is that you are the target. People want to harvest your information in as granular a way as possible in order to, like, create a picture, a complete picture of who you are, ultimately to either sell you things or make you believe things.

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

The problem for most self-starting leaders who do not have a mentor begins when they measure the results and find themselves fully aware of the data and the analytics, but are completely unaware of what to do.

When you have a large amount of data that is labeled so a computer knows what it means, and you have a large amount of computing power, and you're trying to find patterns in that data, we've found that deep learning is unbeatable.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

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

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.

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

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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.

We have to become more digitized and based on data, but ideas and passion will last forever.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

The expense ratio of each mutual fund is available from the mutual fund company, from Morningstar, and it's sometimes included in newspapers and other sources of mutual fund performance data.

Control over my body continues to grow. By now I could walk on hot coals or stick needles in my arm, if I were so inclined. However, my interest in Eastern meditation is limited to its application to physical control; no meditative trance I can attain is nearly as desirable to me as my mental state when I assemble gestalts out of elemental data.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.