Quotes About Data

Just because you're right-wing shouldn't mean you don't believe climate science data. They're unrelated.

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone.

I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps', and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.

It is categorically untrue that Cambridge Analytica has never used Facebook data.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

It seems odd that at the beginning of the Internet, everyone decided everything should stick around forever.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

I don't put a lot of stock into polls.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.

There's always a risk that your iPhone can be stolen, and the people who stole it can use the data, your private photos, etc. to blackmail you.

I think the best projects understand that they don't need to invent a new currency. They don't need to use the block chain as their long-term data storage solution. And they don't need to use the peer-to-peer network as their communication mechanism. They should use the block chain as the world's most secure distributed ledger.

So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting.

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

To know we are being spied on by our own government, and to have someone else's government collaborating on that, to know that data storage is so cheap your information can be kept for years and used to create any kind of story, to me that's a grave attack on human rights.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

With customers' permission, fintech firms have increasingly turned to data aggregators to 'screen scrape' information from financial accounts. In such cases, data aggregators collect and store online banking logins and passwords provided by the bank's customers and use them to log directly into the customer's banking account.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Not asking what a statistic actually means is a failure of empathy, too.