Data Quotes - Page 19

• We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.

  Edward Bernays

  Leadership, Teacher, Issues

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.

  Matthew Humphreys

  Design, Creative, Growth

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• We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

  William James

  Powerful, Science, Use

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• It appears that a simple rule, of something adhering to another similar idea, repeated, leads to stabilities. This seems to be a function of relational data sets, linked to rules, like in DNA chains that have infinite adaptability for sequencing proteins. Out of only four bases, which in turn are further limited by two rules of complimentarity, a myriad of forms arise.

  Cecil Balmond

  Simple, Dna, Ideas

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• Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.

  Eben Moglen

  Used, Connected

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• He’s totally different from the typical jock. He has no ego. That’s unique for someone with such accolades. His strength comes from a higher power. You can’t explain Steve Largent by computer – he doesn’t belong on an NFL field. You put his size and speed in an IBM computer up in Silicon Valley, it would chew up his data card and laugh.

  Lester Hayes

  Unique, Nfl, Laughing

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• Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life.

  Ian Bogost

  Morning, Husband, Light

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• Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

  Eli Pariser

  Hands, Might, Daily Life

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.19, Penguin

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• Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

  Eli Pariser

  Communication, Two, Storage Space

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.16, Penguin

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• Big Data allows us to see patterns we have never seen before. This will clearly show us interdependence and connections that will lead to a new way of looking at everything. It will let us see the ‘real-time’ cause and effect of our actions. What we buy, eat, donate, and throw away will be visual in a real-time map to see the ripple effect of our actions. That could only lead to mores-conscious behavior.

  Tiffany Shlain

  Real, Connections, Maps

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• I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc.... It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.

  Thomas Ferguson

  Book, Leader, Mind

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• The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.

  Neil Newhouse

  Communication, Media, Effort

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• Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.

  Andrew Bird

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Cancer, Mean, Perspective

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• And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.

  Esther Duflo

  World, Lines, Noise

  "The Poverty Lab". Interview with Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. May 17, 2010.

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• We dont have better algorithms, we just have more data

  Peter Norvig

  Algorithms

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• Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data.

  Peter Norvig

  Simple, Trump, Models

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• Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

  David Crystal

  Children, Taken, Kids

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• Marketers can target Sponsored Updates to any segment of our premium audience based on professional profile data across more than 225 million members.

  David Hahn

  Target, Updates, Profile

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• Advertising isnt just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.

  Jan Koum

  Team, Writing, Engineering

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• People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts, articles, graphs, data, infographics, interactive content - even short pictures when you Tweet.

  Chris Bennett

  People, Marketing, Needs

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• Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.

  Spencer Wells

  Taken, People, Invasion

  Spencer Wells (2012). “The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey”, p.167, Random House

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• How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?

  Clayton Christensen

  Past, Make Sense

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• I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Generations, Taught

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• Emphasize your strengths on your resume, in your cover letters and in your interviews. It may sound obvious, but you'd be surprised how many people simply list everything they've ever done.
  Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Passion, People, Sound

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