Quotes About Data

But information is physical.

Shannon used a phrase he had never used before: "information theory.

Bits in the ether.

What we call the past is built on bits. —John Archibald Wheeler

The resulting units may be called binary digits, or more briefly, bits.

We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We

biology has become an information science

What I need I carry in my head. Everything in that machine came from me. My fat burned into knowledge. My calories pedaled into data analysis -- The Calorie Man

lab workers as subjects.

People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

If you use Facebook - as I do - Facebook in all likelihood has a unique digital file of your face, one that can be as accurate as a fingerprint and that can be used to identify you in a photo of a large crowd.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

Philips is uniquely positioned to help reshape and optimize population health management by leveraging big data and delivering care across the health continuum, from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis, minimally invasive treatment, recovery, and home care.

All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.

With a hundred and seventy-eight machines to sequence the precise order of the billions of chemicals within a molecule of DNA, B.G.I. produces at least a quarter of the world's genomic data - more than Harvard University, the National Institutes of Health, or any other scientific institution.

To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions.

When I started out as an equity analyst, we had no securitization data. We relied on company data.

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.