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• The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

  Bill Lee

  Important, Bigs, Company

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• It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

  John Coleman

  Long, Political, Environmental

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• Incivility is a symptom, not the disease. We've always had partisan conflict in Congress, and we always will. Yet when I worked for a year (1970-71) on the staff of Sen. Ed Muskie of Maine, this was a different place, more collegial, more sensitive to data, more concerned about all of the American people. I think because the for-profit media prizes conflict above cooperation and sound bites above analysis, politicians have learned to adapt to those tendencies. Consequently, our public debates are dumbed down as our problems grow more complex.

  Tom Allen

  Thinking, Media, Years

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• I lay no claim to advancing scientific data other than advancing flying knowledge. I can only say that I do it because I want to.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Want, Claims

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• Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

  Michael Palmer

  Broken, Etc, Chemicals

  "Tech giants may be huge, but nothing matches big data" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

  Fred Wilson

  Decision, Driven, Should

  "Fred Wilson: My Harvard Business School Lecture" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2011.

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• In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

  Bobby Scott

  Kings, Children, School

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

  Terry Jones

  People, May, Want

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• I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.

  Ken Thompson

  Different, Separation, Program

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• This is the time to be super aggressive

  Chris Lynch

  Aggressive

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• There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

  Ken Thompson

  Power, Executing

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• Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

  Steve Crocker

  Technology, Voice, Challenges

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• Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Teaching, Inspiration

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.89, Vintage

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• I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Air, Giving

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Clouds, Two, People

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• An engineer can look at the data, but he needs a translator from the cockpit - the driver - to understand it completely. For example, only the driver can tell you why he abruptly takes his foot off the gas pedal at a certain point. The data doesn't necessarily tell the engineer whether the driver made a mistake at that point or the car was acting up. The information the driver provides often helps determine the direction of development.

  Michael Schumacher

  Mistake, Feet, Car

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.

  Larry Ellison

  Want, Tolerate, Company

  Interview with Richard Waters, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

  Pete Townshend

  Doe, World, Modern

  Interview with Rob Mitchum, pitchfork.com. October 16, 2006.

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• There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

  Bryan Caplan

  Errors, Two, Failing

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• Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

  Linus Torvalds

  Real, Men, Mirrors

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• The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data.

  R. D. Laing

  Taken, Research, Speak

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

  Norwood Russell Hanson

  Theory, Observation

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• Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Years, Ice

  "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2008.

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Anxiety, Black, Needs

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• Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

  Brian Kernighan

  Weirdness, Easier, Regularity

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