Quotes About Data

As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

It isn't citizens, or Congress, who decide how our information network regulates itself. We don't get to decide how information companies collect data, and we don't get to decide how transparent they should be. The tech companies do that all by themselves.

In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.

Many people are willing to learn techniques that help them live their lives. But the person who seeks to confirm their life at its roots by reaching beyond technique to the fundamentals—to true religion—is exceedingly rare. I find this state of affairs most regrettable. That is why I can't help but urge you to refrain from evaluating your daily life on the basis of what you think you know, on the basis of collected data.

The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data.

Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items. -- From The Devil's DP Dictionary

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

In fact a full cadastral survey of Greece remains incomplete to this day.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.

Shout the truth, if you want to degoogle the google." Says Bhutta

Search engines finds the information, not necessarily the truth.

The body of truth has a much larger data base than the conscience of lies.

This is a common practice. You go to a site and your ID is captured and sent on for marketing use elsewhere. It's essentially the origin of spam.

A third reason scientists are reluctant to examine paranormal phenomena is that they appear to contradict known physical laws. What is the point of studying the impossible? Only a fool would waste his time. The problem of data in conflict with existing theory cannot be overstated. Arthur Eddington once said you should never believe any experiment until it has been confirmed by theory, but this humorous view has a reality that cannot be discounted.

Begin by quantifying everything related to how you do business. I mean everything.

The U.S. stock market now trades inside black boxes, in heavily guarded buildings in New Jersey and Chicago.