Data Quotes - Page 34

• While the ranking of individual years can be affected by chaotic weather patterns, the long-term trends are attributable to drivers of climate change that right now are dominated by human emissions of greenhouse gases...

  Gavin Schmidt

  Change, Years, Weather

  "Global warming made 2014 a record hot year - in animated graphics" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• The USA Freedom Act does not propose that we abandon any and all efforts to analyze telephone data, what we're talking about here is a program that currently contemplates the collection of all data just as a routine matter and the aggregation of all that data in one database. That causes concerns for a lot of people... There's a lot of potential for abuse.

  Mike Lee

  Freedom, Talking, Usa

  "Everything you need to know about the Patriot Act debate". edition.cnn.com. May 23, 2015.

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• Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing.

  Dov Seidman

  Machines, Next, Thanks

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• At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs, that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service.

  Lisa Gansky

  Cities, Numbers, Track

  "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Information, Patient, Empowered

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

  David Boies

  Technology, People, Newspapers

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• 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

  Mean, Offering, Important

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• Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

  Jim DeMint

  Analysis, Heritage, Research

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• Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

  Tim Ferriss

  Running, Wine, Iphone

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• Resveratrol is fascinating stuff. One of the best sources of information about it is the Immortality Institute. They have a forum where some people are in the 500 Club, as they call it. They've been taking 500 milligrams for years. It's a really great source of data.

  Tim Ferriss

  Years, People, Clubs

  "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.

  Al Franken

  Thinking, Kind, Should

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• When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

  Daniel Goleman

  Yield, Mind, Measurement

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• 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, Rights, Years

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• What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

  Kamala Harris

  Book, Smartphones, Want

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• I trust my government. I actually have a trust for my government with my data, and I trust them to protect me. They've protected me - they've made the best efforts to protect me my whole life.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Government, Best Effort, Made

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• Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Needs, Problem, Given

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• One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Issues, Networking, Social

  "Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook". Interview with Ian Katz, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

  Dan Lipinski

  Missing You, Jobs, Debate

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• 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, Mean, Google

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• 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

  Law, People, Example

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• We're long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It's unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don't reflect that in their boardrooms.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Past, Long, Directors

  "Facebook has only men on its board of directors" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. February 5, 2012.

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• If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Distance, Years

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

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• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  Frances O'Grady

  Country, Imf, Records

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• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Phones, Soon Enough, Surfing

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• No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, People, Matter

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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