Quotes About Data

you want to get as close to the data as you can get, because it's the questions you don't know to ask that will make all the difference.

But data are about the past, and strategic inflection points are about the future.

We can see that the Kolmogorov complexity describes the compressibility of the pattern:

It has been shown many times that any organisation that loses access to its data for more than 10 days is very likely to go out of business.

The nature of the data we possess suggests we value each and every tradition rather than creating a dichotomy between the normative tradition and the others.

We should also be careful not to count the "leisure" of the unemployed as a benefit. Those who have lost their jobs are not choosing to spend more time at home, and study after study has documented that unemployed people are among the most dissatisfied with their lives. So the data in Figure 1 would not be improved by any mechanical adjustment for the value of leisure.

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Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

What if in a permission-based structure, you could decide if you wanted to provide value to advertisers or to political groups? Or, for instance, share your medical data for cancer research? All those options should be available for an individual to make.

At WhatsApp, our engineers spend all their time fixing bugs, adding new features and ironing out all the little intricacies in our task of bringing rich, affordable, reliable messaging to every phone in the world. That's our product, and that's our passion. Your data isn't even in the picture. We are simply not interested in any of it.

WhatsApp doesn't only fail to protect your WhatsApp messages - this app is being consistently used as a Trojan horse to spy on your non-WhatsApp photos and messages.

Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.

Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

If we want to prevent another Cambridge Analytica from happening... that starts with regulating big tech beyond just data protection issues, but also looking at whether or not we want as a society to tolerate manipulative design.

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

In Quakerism, your understanding of God is revised in light of your own experience, while in research science, you revise your model in light of data from experiments.

You cannot prevent collisions if the data that can prevent them is still making its way through the network.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

To provide affordability, we have made a few acqui-hires such as a data analytics firm to help us deliver the cheapest room prices in every town.