Data Quotes

• Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

  Clifford Stoll

  Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge

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• Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

  Mark Twain

  Communication, Garbage, Project Management

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• The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

  Carly Fiorina

  Data Collection, Goal, Thought Provoking

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Mistake, Math

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Experts often possess more data than judgment.

  Colin Powell

  Experts, Action, Judgment

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.173, Ballantine Books

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

  George Raveling

  Decision, Information, Makers

  FaceBook post by George Raveling from Jul 28, 2015

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• We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.

  Jay Baer

  Insight

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• It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

  Bill Ford

  Information, Form

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• Who has the data has the power.

  Tim O'Reilly

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• You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

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• Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Data Science, Lasts, Precious Things

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• The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

  John Tukey

  Drawing, Unexpected, Diagrams

  John Wilder Tukey (1977). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, Pearson College Division

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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Science, Alchemist

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• Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

  Brené Brown

  Motivation, Inspiration, Soul

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• Above all else show the data.

  Edward Tufte

  Shows

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• Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

  Craig Mundie

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Raw Materials

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Temptation, Form, Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.852, Wordsworth Editions

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• With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

  Marissa Mayer

  Data Collection, Answers, Data Science

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• Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

  Charles Babbage

  Failure, Errors, Mathematical Logic

  Attributed to Charles Babbage in William Kenneth Richmond "The Education Industry", 1969.

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• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Mistake, Math, Science

  "A Scandal in Bohemia" (1891)

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• Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

  John Naisbitt

  Wisdom, Intuition, Information

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.

  Vinton Cerf

  Engineering, Administration, Facts

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