Quotes About Data

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'

Webb will return extremely interesting measurements of chemistry in the Martian atmosphere. And most importantly, these Mars data will be immediately available to the planetary community to enable them to plan even more detailed Mars observations with Webb in future cycles.

Outside the U.S., most data plans have a data limit.

In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.

The people at Netflix are extremely intelligent about the way they monitor activity on their platform.

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

I love the idea of creators owning their audience data instead of platforms.

I want to make sure I have a system that allows me to know that the platoon sergeant and platoon commander aren't going to move at the same time when we come back from deployment. That sounds pretty simple, but it's really about data.

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.

23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public - our more than 180,000 customers.

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

By going to Pluto, we have a chance to anchor, with real data, models of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

To be an effective leader and make sound decisions, you must be able to gather data by seeking out diverse perspectives and be willing to consider points of view other than your own.

I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.