Data Quotes - Page 23

Don’t use the language of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ when talking about blood sugar numbers – these are data points, not judgments of your ability to manage your diabetes.

Adam Brown

Blood, Talking, Numbers

4 Copy quote
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

Clay Shirky

Digital, Problem, Incredibles

"Clay Shirky analyzes the newspaper Holocaust" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. March 14, 2009.

14 Copy quote

Show source
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

Merton Miller

Class, Patterns, Students

9 Copy quote
You need to marry the qualitative with the quantitative. It better informs us so we can decide what to do. We can't be afraid of data and analysis. We have to use that lens.

Nathan Shedroff

Lenses, Needs, Analysis

6 Copy quote
Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.

Nathan Shedroff

Meaningful, Organization, Design

6 Copy quote
Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

Todd Park

Benefits, Ifs

7 Copy quote
Companies that actually survive and flourish are going to change their business model from production to aggregating the networks and the network services and solutions. If you're a construction company or an IT company or a logistics company or an information data operation, to the extent that you can find ways to help build the commons, you can get some commercial value in that.

Jeremy Rifkin

Logistics, Information, Way

"Is Capitalism Dead?". Interview with Aaron Lazenby, www.oracle.com. June 2014.

10 Copy quote

Show source
I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Peter Kreeft

Able, Firsts, Poet

Peter Kreeft (2006). “The Sea Within: Waves and the Meaning of All Things”, St Augustine PressInc

4 Copy quote

Show source
Governance allows organizations...t o use critical data to drive the organization.

Dick Taylor

Organization, Use, Critical

4 Copy quote
Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.

Ramit Sethi

Valuable, Right Direction

17 Copy quote
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.

Darrell Huff

Honesty, Mean, Understanding

11 Copy quote
The intellectual treatment of any datum, any experience, any subject, is determined by the nature of our questions, and only carried out in the answers.

Susanne Katherina Langer

Intellectual, Inquiry, Answers

4 Copy quote
Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

Jean Baudrillard

Technology, Omnipotence, Vision

Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

10 Copy quote

Show source
Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

Lewis Mumford

Experience, Energy, Atoms

4 Copy quote
The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based upon the belief in God. Things are as they are whether there is a God or not. Logically, to believe in design one must start with God. He, or it, is not a conclusion but a datum. You may begin by assuming a creator, and then say he did this or that; but you cannot logically say that because certain things exist, therefore there is a God who made them. God is an assumption, not a conclusion. And it is an assumption that explains nothing.

Chapman Cohen

God, Believe, Design

10 Copy quote
Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

Jack Newfield

Adversity, People, Black

Jack Newfield (2009). “RFK: A Memoir”, p.48, Nation Books

10 Copy quote

Show source
Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape.

George Arthur Crump

Running, Mean, Receiving

10 Copy quote
Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape makes these 'just in case' copies very affordable.

George Arthur Crump

Needs, Tape, Cost

4 Copy quote
As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on tape can still be automatically scanned for durability and it certainly meets the cost-effectiveness requirements.

George Arthur Crump

Effectiveness, Long, Tape

4 Copy quote
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of physical storage assets. Software defined storage could allow a further level of abstraction and cost effectiveness. The vast bulk of content stored "in the cloud" will reside on large SATA interface HDDs with some on magnetic (mostly LTO) tape (particularly for "archives.")

Tom Coughlin

Clouds, Effectiveness, Archives

13 Copy quote
... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.

George Arthur Crump

Tape, Reliability, Movement

4 Copy quote
Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

George Arthur Crump

Perspective, Add, Needs

4 Copy quote
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have my other name, which is my legal name under which I own property and vote.

Bruce Sterling

Writing, Names, Two

"Big Brother and the Next 50 years". Interview with Declan McCullagh, www.cnet.com. June 05, 2003.

4 Copy quote

Show source
People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

Tom Bodett

Taken, Mean, Thinking

"Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

5 Copy quote

Show source
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

Michael Shermer

Portraits, Fields, Evolution

Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.232, Henry Holt and Company

9 Copy quote

Show source

You May Also Like Quotes On:

Strategy