Quotes About Data

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

You happily give Facebook terabytes of structured data about yourself, content with the implicit tradeoff that Facebook is going to give you a social service that makes your life better.

In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction.

Opposition to immigration is an emotional argument, and human beings are emotional, not robots powered by data.

KPMG's use of IBM Watson technology will help advance our team's ability to analyze and act on the core financial and operational data so central to the health of organizations and the capital markets.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.

I never really understood the idea that nonfiction ought to be this dispensary of data that we have at the moment.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Cloud computing is a challenge to security, but one that can be overcome.

Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all.

Everything becomes buffering, and buffering becomes everything.

What ever-sharper, real-time data about people's actual listening behavior do is more strongly reinforce the feedback loop.

While earlier generations of wireless technology evolved from voice to data (just as the wired network had), 5G was the first technology to be built from the ground up for the purpose of microcomputers talking to microcomputers.

42.9% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

But there is no cause to concern because we now know, through the work of Dr Mark Rosenweig in Paris, that even if your brain were fed 10 items of data (each item being a simple word or image) every second for 100 years, it would still have used less than one-tenth of its storage capacity.

The average of the two is shown. The warming observed by the satellites since 1979 is approximately 0.25°C (0.45°F).

Quote may seem a bit of a foreign concept, because few other languages have anything like it. It's closely tied to one of the most distinctive features of Lisp: code and data are made out of the same data structures, and the quote operator is the way we distinguish between them.

Programmers have a saying: garbage in, garbage out.

Modern life is one sweeping, cradle-to-grave invasion of privacy. An encroachment on our ever-narrowing space. Our footprints in the sand are a billion bytes on a thousand hard drives. Fodder for the snoop and the historian alike.