Databases Quotes

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Support, Tools, Cad

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.

Stan Rapp

Social Media, Century, Marketplace

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Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.

Larry Ellison

Data, Programming, Integrated

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Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Dave Barry

Memories, Technology, Information

Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require.

Stephen Cambone

Different, World, Information

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An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.

Tom Coburn

Sunshine, Practice, Government

"Tracking Federal Hurricane Aid Poses a Challenge" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2005.

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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

Ted Nelson

Microsoft Word, Oracles, Bills

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Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

Dan Ariely

Witty, Sex, Teenage

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I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

David Blunkett

Mean, People, Cards

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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

Julian Assange

Talking, Organization, Political

"Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.

Jay Chiat

Writing, Technology, Phones

"Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Jamie Zawinski

Design, Nails, Looks

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So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.

Henry Louis Gates

Tree, Doe, Legends

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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.

Russell Baker

Wine, Nursing, White

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Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.

Ilona Andrews

Names, Littles, Way

Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.14, Penguin

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As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

Frederick Lenz

Science, Analysis, Acumen

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Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.

Lev Manovich

Unique, Desire, Today

Lev Manovich (2001). “The Language of New Media”, p.401, MIT Press

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I have a database of all my works that I maintain to keep track of works and editions.

Patricia Piccinini

Track

The Condition report Interview, www.patriciapiccinini.net. 2014.

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Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

Ken Robinson

Multiple Choice, Choices, Soul

"Fertile minds need feeding". Interview with Jessica Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2009.

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Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.

Arthur Miller

Funny, Information, Aviation

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Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

Geoff Mulgan

Fun, Discipline, Covering

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The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Clifford Stoll

Teacher, Government, Cds

"The 5 Stages of Social Media Grief" by Brett King, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2010.

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Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by U.S. intelligence? No, it's not like that. It's simply that U.S. intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it's costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

Julian Assange

Running, Agency, Hands

"WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo.. all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It's not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.

Julian Assange

Communication, Names, Organization

"WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

Julian Assange

Agency, United States, Add

"WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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