Quotes About Data

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything.

They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.

I don't own encryption, Apple doesn't own encryption. Encryption, as you know, is everywhere. In fact some of encryption is funded by our government.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

If you log onto this (Cars.gov) at your home, everything in your home is now theirs.

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends on one's values.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

Every system using data separates humanity into winners and losers.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

described the Internet as "a series of intestines, laid out by a goatherd's son, spewing bile at both ends

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one's opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal.