Data Quotes

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll

Knowledge, Wisdom

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Thomas Sowell

Strong, Control, Gun

Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell

Often, Judgment, Experts

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore

Education, Learning, Training

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Write, Three

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.
Jack Kevorkian

Experience, Medical, Wish

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

Distrust, Judgment

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Before, Mistake, Capital

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono

Business, School, Mind

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

Less, Using, Errors

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.
Michelle Obama

Hard, Problems, President

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Luis Gutierrez

Health, Year, Rights

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

Less, Exist, Banks

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader

Company, Hear, Million

The launch of Google+ apps sends a powerful signal - the personalized web has begun. What this means is that the way information is structured and accessed will turn on the individual, or rather their personal profile which is a composite of all the data collected on the basis of what they have searched for and shared.
Simon Mainwaring

Powerful, Rather, Personal

You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.
Susan Orlean

Crazy, Smart, Thinking

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

Society, Intuition, Valuable

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned Hand

Life, Past, Down

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.
Nate Silver

Times, Three, Next

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
James Lovelock

Science, Put, Against

I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in your data, you wouldn't mind someone looking at it. You should be able to respond that if you don't believe me go out and do the measurements yourself.
James Lovelock

Yourself, Mind, Someone

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
Jonathan Sacks

Family, Women, Best

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.
Nate Silver

Baseball, Creative, Terrific

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
Nate Silver

Politics, Baseball, Pretty

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.
Nate Silver

Yourself, Boring, Looking

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
Nate Silver

Funny, Human, Happen

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.
Nate Silver

Play, Around, Themselves

The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
Evan Davis

Important, Mean, Place

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
Tim Berners-Lee

Last, Themselves, Longer

Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
Kevin Mitnick

Example, Laws, Trash

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