Data Quotes - Page 14

• The world is one big data problem.

  Andrew McAfee

  Thought Provoking, World, Problem

  George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee (2014). “Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

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• Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

  David Mccandless

  Government, Years, Creative

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• Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions.

  Roger Lewin

  Fit, Conclusion

  Roger Lewin (1997). “Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Origins”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• The catchall phrase big data means three things. First, it is a bundle of technologies. Second, it is a potential revolution in measurement. And third, it is a point of view, or philosophy, about how decisions will be-and perhaps should be-made in the future

  Steve Lohr

  Philosophy, Mean, Technology

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• I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Thinking, Gps

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• A different [Ronald] Reagan-era authority: EO 12333, an executive order for foreign-intelligence collection, as opposed to the ones we now use domestically. So this one isn't even authorized by law. It's just an old-ass piece of paper with Reagan's signature on it, which has been updated a couple times since then. So what happened was that all of a sudden these massive, behemoth companies realized their data centers - sending hundreds of millions of people's communications back and forth every day - were completely unprotected, electronically naked.

  Edward Snowden

  Couple, Communication, Order

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• When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."

  Edward Snowden

  Creating, Japan, Surveillance

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.

  Paul Virilio

  Sex, Eye, Hands

  Source: ctheory.net

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• If we look at statistical data, we see that Protestant countries in terms of economic development are more successful than those observing Catholicism.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Successful, Looks

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Today the patent office is obsolete. You just take whatever you do, tool up, and start production for six months. At the end of the six months you put the data on all the computer inputs all over the world and you got your business. You can make all your money, and then people can steal it, but by then it doesn't matter because you've made the money up front and you avoid wasting money in lawsuits. [My father] had all these kinds of ideas years ahead of others.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Years, Ideas

  "Satan, God, H.P. Lovecraft and Other Mephitic Models: An Interview With Paul Laffoley". Interview With Robert Guffey, www.paranoiamagazine.com. May 23, 2016.

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• My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.

  Jay Mohr

  Sound, Radio, Stuff

  Source: underthegunreview.net

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• A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach zero. Thus, it used to be to deploy software at scale, you had to fund a data center, buy a set of servers, storage, and networking gear, build an in-house IT management capability, and buy an expensive stack of enabling software before you could even get started. Now you can get all that from Amazon or Microsoft on a pay-as-you-grow model.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Zero, Technology, House

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The single greatest business opportunity that is now emerging in the global marketplace is the ability to analyze digital log data to trace digital actions and from those traces to develop algorithms that can predict future outcomes with greater accuracy.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Opportunity, Algorithms, Outcomes

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• [Students] are also accustomed to having quick access to information. The idea of "storing" data in their heads can seem pointless. I find that they are also much more interested in learning through problem solving and group collaboration than in the past.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Past, Ideas, Groups

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through many revisions. We have to learn to be intelligent assessors of the data coming in to us and what it's doing to our mental process.

  George Saunders

  Intelligent, Fiction, Revision

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, Information

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Book, Character

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• The past is interesting to me because it's been dumbed down or flattened out, or academically nitpicked so you can't get any life out of it, you just get data.

  Toni Morrison

  Past, Interesting

  Source: theharvardadvocate.com

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• Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their hands or something. We get [data] wrong because 50 years ago that wasn't the case and because we haven't had these graphics we don't realize that over the last 30, 40, 50 years things have changed dramatically. And you see how the world has been getting a better, safer, more homogeneous place. It just has.

  Keith Devlin

  Hands, Years, Lasts

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In fact, when you try to use [Hans Rosling] data to predict the future, all sorts of problems arise. But what it does do is say, hey, just catch your breath a minute and see what's really been going on. We do have reason to feel good about the fact we've made progress.

  Keith Devlin

  Feel Good, Trying, Progress

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're voting for Trump out of white solidarity or out of frustration that they're, quote, unquote, "losing their country". And my concern with that is that it sort of reduces the condition of the Trump voter to one of pure ignorance. And I think it's far more complicated.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Country, Ignorance, Frustration

  "Professor Weighs In On Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Uninformed Voter Comment". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 6, 2016.

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• We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives.

  Bill Gates

  Kids, Years, Vaccines

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Safety, Important

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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• Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There's hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn't have a cause or effect that's generated abroad. Increasingly, we must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.

  Alan Bersin

  Country, Government, Information

  Source: www.salon.com

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