844 Quotes About Data

Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.

Data is the blood of any organization; coming from everywhere, used everywhere, connecting all the body, transferring messages and when analyzed it reflects the whole picture of the body.

To be innovative, you need to be ahead of the data.

Professional astronomers stole my health and career from me to obtain tainted astronomical data.

Give every American the right to stop data collection altogether with the click of a button. That’s what I call the Do Not Track proposal, legislation I introduced in the Senate.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

It is unfortunate that some of us worry about losing data but not our thoughts about the data. If we believed in the premises of sociology—that interaction is patterned, that people share meanings, beliefs, and behaviors—then we would trust that the patterns we missed while we were writing will still be there when we return to the field. We are more likely to forget our insights into what we observed.

Objectivity of truth, reality, facts, data - they matter; otherwise, you have the 'good guys', the moral persons, in the name of what they call justice, in a fight against what they call injustice, unwittingly adopting the roles of oppressors by persecuting the innocent.

Paradoxically, the sources available today (in the era of big data) are less precise than those that were available a century ago due to the internationalization of wealth, the proliferation of tax havens, and above all, lack of political will to enforce financial transparency, so it is quite possible that we are underestimating the level of wealth inequality in recent decades.