Quotes About Data

When whistleblowers come forward, we need to fight for them, so others will be encouraged. When they are gagged, we must be their voice. When they are hunted, we must be their shield. When they are locked away, we must free them. Giving us the truth is not a crime. This is our data, our information, our history. We must fight to own it.

I am not inspired by helping you find Chinese food at 2am in Dallas, or swipe right to get laid. I want to use tech and data to make the world a better place.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

Information wants to eat brie.

People don't want the raw data, but instead want marketers to decipher the tech speak for them and present the valuable insights.

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation - small data about seeking the causation.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

Pinterest may have more travel intent data than any other site, so many people are pinning where they want to be.

If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

Scientists are people, and they are subject to the influences of their times. Theories explaining the world change diachronically or vary synchronically not only because of variation in the available data, but because of change and variation in the people producing the theories. Objectivity itself is culturally constituted.

subtle way of helping to identify a user's interests without the user conspicuously sharing them with facebook. (regarding the like button)

if you're not the customer, you're the product

Even when zeroing in on privacy, they showboated.

The real difference between Aristarchus and today's astronomers and physicists is not that his observational data were in error, but that he never tried to judge the uncertainty in them, or even acknowledged that they might be imperfect.

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.

For many of us, our smartphones have become extensions of our brains - we outsource essential cognitive functions, like memory, to them, which means they soak up much more information than we realize.

Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.