Quotes About Data

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

If research can help us discover cures for diseases, it surely can improve a football team. Whether it's data analysis or biomechanics, it can give you an edge - and I'd be a fool if I didn't want that edge.

To me, the biggest surprise is that Google still functions despite the explosion in the number of sites.

When we were associated with eBay, it was surprising to me how many merchants were very reluctant to work with PayPal because we were accessing their data and their information, and they felt in some way, shape, or form they were competing with eBay.

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.

What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

Areas where there is a lack of data, or a lack of understanding, are automatically assumed to belong, by default, to God.

What we see of the real world is not the unvarnished real world but a model of the real world, regulated and adjusted by sense data - a model that is constructed so that it is useful for dealing with the real world.

The ideal organizational environment encourages everyone to observe, collect data, and speak up.

who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.

She and Torres have history all over the place. Stuck together in the data like tissues on a lap dance cabin floor.

There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. When humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science.)

The Engineer began dismantling the helmet at a breakneck speed, stacking the components—faceplate, lining, mikes, data processor, even microfans—on the nearest flat surface, a hydroplane-like structure on a small vessel.

Physics deals with quantities that can be measured. Thus, you won't find concepts such as honesty, love, and courage as primary topics of discussion in a physics book. As

Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it

In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

To be honest, I don't have data in my brain of how a relationship with a man is supposed to function.

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.