Data Quotes - Page 12

• Data is not useful until it becomes information.

  Seth Godin

  Information

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• Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moving, Doe, Kind

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• Hate is love without enough data.

  Richard Bach

  Hate, Enough

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• I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

  Mary Meeker

  Thinking, Important

  "Mary Meeker's misinformation has influence" by Jeff Elder, www.sfgate.com. June 7, 2013.

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• If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

  Randall Munroe

  Firsts, Succeed, Ifs

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• If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

  Martin Sorrell

  Technology, Night, Thinking

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• The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.

  Jay Baer

  Understanding, Marketing, Bigs

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• All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

  Amber Naslund

  Useless, World, Measurement

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• The theory that the biosphere was created without evolution, a few thousand years ago, is ruled out by overwhelming scientific evidence. To claim that there are 'alternative (always better) Biblical explanations of the same data', which make creationism a reasonable alternative to our best theories of biology and physics, is appalling intellectual dishonesty.

  David Deutsch

  Biblical, Years, Intellectual

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• Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.

  Steve Squyres

  Mistake, Thinking, Views

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• If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Brain, Rumor, Technique

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• Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data.

  Paul Ryan

  Rip, Men, Use

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• The thing that sucks is that there’s so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

  Laura Prepon

  People, Stuff, Kind

  "INTERVIEW: Laura Prepon shoots down Tom Cruise rumors". Interview with Michelle Carlbert, www.sheknows.com. April 21, 2014.

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• Make your copy straightforward to read, understand and use. Use easy words; those that are used for everyday speech. Use phrases that are not too imprecise and very understandable. Do not be too stuffy; remove pompous words and substitute them with plain words. Minimize complicated gimmicks and constructions. If you can't give the data directly and briefly, you must consider writing the copy again.

  Jay Abraham

  Writing, Giving, Everyday

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• How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling.

  Clayton Christensen

  Wall, Moving, Growth

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• But actually theory is very practical. Gravity is a theory, for example. It allows you to predict that if you step off a cliff you will fall; you don't have to collect data on that.

  Clayton Christensen

  Fall, Cliffs, Steps

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Disruptive technology is a theory. It says this will happen and this is why; it's a statement of cause and effect. In our teaching we have so exalted the virtues of data-driven decision making that in many ways we condemn managers only to be able to take action after the data is clear and the game is over. In many ways a good theory is more accurate than data. It allows you to see into the future more clearly.

  Clayton Christensen

  Teaching, Technology, Games

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.

  Clayton Christensen

  Fall, Believe, Get Better

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I think its a fundamental feature of images that they move from one medium to another. And this has become hyper-evident in our time with the computer, which is a kind of master-medium also and allows us to transfer data of all kinds from one platform to another, turning sounds into sights or language into image. The computer has made something that is very old evident in a new way.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Moving, Thinking, Sight

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Political, Glitches, Campaigns

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.]

  Maurice Levy

  Real, Oil, White

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The main thing is that people see constant reports of break-ins on, on record systems and stolen financial data and social security records and so they'd think about you know what's going to prevent that happening with my medical records. And interestingly enough, patients are less worried about that than their doctors are.

  William Davis

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid dissemination of data. I did know that whatever its cause or nature, I wanted to interrogate this phenomenon. But the only way for me to do that, the only tool I have to dissect it with, is a fictional narrative.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Technology, Tools, Narrative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.

  Annalee Newitz

  Mean, Technology, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.

  Astra Taylor

  Data Collection, Needs, Gadgets

  Source: therumpus.net

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