Category Archives: Quotes

Data is Eating the World Quotable Quotes

Posted on August 12, 2019 by GilPress

“The power to predict the future is about to emerge. The amount of data will grow by a million times over the next 30 years”—Masayoshi Son, CEO, SoftBank Group @masason “As a FedEx employee in 1996, I was in the … Continue reading →

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Byte Counter Byte: Human vs. Machine Judgment

Posted on January 9, 2014 by GilPress

Here’s a simple rule for the second machine age we’re in now: as the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down… The practical conclusion is that we should turn many of our decisions, predictions, diagnoses, … Continue reading →

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Gartner’s Dave Aron’s Poems on the Digital Zeitgeist

Posted on October 20, 2013 by GilPress

Dave Aron writes: I would like to suggest a new form of digital poem – the denshi. (電詩). Haiku are 17 syllable poems, structured in a 5-7-5 syllable format, that tend to be about nature and the seasons, and are … Continue reading →

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Big Data Observations: Definitions, Definitions

Posted on October 5, 2013 by GilPress

“…there’s lots of focus on the ‘big’ aspect of data. It sometimes gives us the image of truckloads of data being heaped upon existing truckloads somewhere up in the cloud, creating a virtual mountain so immense it makes Everest look … Continue reading →

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Big Data Observations: Can We Escape?

Posted on August 20, 2013 by GilPress

“Our time is increasingly occupied by data, and that data is increasingly trivial”–Andre Mouton “Is it even possible to keep sensitive data out of corporations or government hands? There’s a reason old-fashioned devices like typewriters are now being used by … Continue reading →

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Big Data Observations: The Science of Asking Questions

Posted on July 26, 2013 by GilPress

“I am a firm believer that without speculation there is no good and original observation”—Charles Darwin “It is the theory that determines what we can observe”—Albert Einstein “I suspect, however, like as it is happening in many academic fields, the … Continue reading →

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Big Data Quotes: Imagination, Automation, Benefits, Bias

Posted on July 19, 2013 by GilPress

“Big data will never give you big ideas… Big data doesn’t facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim … Continue reading →

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Big Data Quotes: Data Science is Like Crack

Posted on July 9, 2013 by GilPress

“…data science is more like crack. Businesses want more not when it’s held entirely out of their reach but when they’ve been allowed to successfully smoke a little. Then they’re hooked… Data scientists’ job security is bound up in industry … Continue reading →

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Big Data Quotes: Einstein, Come Back When You’ve Got Data

Posted on July 6, 2013 by GilPress

“Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information became less than the cost of making the decision to throw it away”—George Dyson (quoted by Tim O’Reilly) “If the engineers have their way, every idea, memory, and feeling—the … Continue reading →

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