Quotes About Data

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

In God we trust; all others must bring data.

In God we trust. All others [must] have data.

In America, we collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

Just remember when you post something, the computers remember forever.

I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

I don't use a computer. We have too much information and it's really impossible to filter it.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

Computer scientists are the historians of computing.

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

They're not predicting global warming based on what's happened in the past; they're basing it on what their computer predictions say, and nothing more.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.

Statisticians do it with confidence, frequency and variation