Quotes About Data

I think it's pretty clear when you make a choice that's against all public health information and data out there, that it's not based on what is in the interests of the people you are governing. It is perhaps in the interest of your own politics.

If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.

If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.

One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

I used to collect computer punch cards from the data centers.

Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and other large networks are really selling. The ads are almost a by-product; what companies really want to know is what antiperspirant a woman of 25-34 is most likely to purchase after watching 'House of Cards.'

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.

The use of data for political purposes wasn't invented by Cambridge Analytica.

Without your data, Google couldn't pursue the dream of trying to figure out what you're really thinking when you're asking a question, of trying to discern, from the imprecision of your language, the exact answer you're looking for.

Analytics is not about sitting behind a computer and pushing enter and having it produce an answer.

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Our original plan when we founded Waze was to sell the data, and we could keep it ad-free that way.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

Look, fundamentally the more you know about someone, the better you can communicate with them at a human level, or a mass-communication-advertising level.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobi?nija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budu?nostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as raw material from which to create order. That was the Mentat approach, giving no unalterable truths but a remarkable lever for decision-making: orderly assemblage of data in a non-discrete system.

The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have little to do with it.

Desire brings the participants together. Data sets the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.