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• Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

  Patrick P. Gelsinger

  Data Collection, Asking, Answers

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• We need a more holistic approach in which we take account of society's most vulnerable sectors. We shouldn't just do broad averaging of country statistics but rather we need to disaggregate the data to determine where the resources are most needed. In most cases, it's usually the reverse: those who are most marginalized - minorities and rural and remote communities - get the least attention and money.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Community, Needs

  Source: www.who.int

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• Just providing information about how bad things are, or the statistics and data on incarceration by themselves, does lead to more depression and resignation and is not empowering. The information has to be presented in a way that's linked to the piece about encouraging students to think critically and creatively about how they might respond to injustice, and how young people have responded to injustice in the past.

  Michelle Alexander

  Past, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Technology, Records

  Marshall McLuhan, Wilfred Watson (1970). “From cliché to archetype”, Viking Adult

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• Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

  Italo Calvino

  Autobiography, Register, Private Things

  Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Thought Provoking, Marketing, Deer

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• Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

  Arthur Koestler

  What Matters, Facts, Mosaics

  Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.

  Nate Silver

  Movie, Twilight, Cat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Knowledge, Long

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

  Gijs de Vries

  Two Sides, Flipping A Coin, Coins

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• You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

  Alvin Toffler

  Wisdom, Thought Provoking, Judging

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• What we have is a data glut.

  Vernor Vinge

  Thought Provoking

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• Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

  Colin Powell

  Real, Exercise, Experts

  Colin L. Powell, Joseph E. Persico (2010). “My American Journey”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

  Arthur Nielsen

  Light, Darkness, Cost

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• There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

  Isaac Asimov

  Meaningful, Answers, Insufficient

  Isaac Asimov (1990). “The Complete Stories”, Broadway Books

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• The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

  David Weinberger

  Exotic, Landscape, Next

  David Weinberger (2014). “Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room”, p.195, Basic Books

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• Data that is loved tends to survive.

  Kurt Bollacker

  Data Collection, Data Science

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• The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

  John Tukey

  Desire, Body, Statistics

  "Sunset Salvo" by John Tukey in The American Statistician, Volume 40, No. 1 (pp. 72-76), www.jstor.org. February 1986.

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• No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

  John Sculley

  Business, Decision, Marketing

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• In God we trust; all others bring data.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Funny Good Morning, Measurement, Favourite

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• A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Focus And Concentration, Essentials, Gifted

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• In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

  Adam Savage

  Yield, Tests, Spirit

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• Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Genius, Forget, Invention

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.113, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Data really powers everything that we do.

  Jeff Weiner

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

  "Where LinkedIn is headed next". Interview with Adam Lashinsky, fortune.com. June 18, 2012.

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