I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer. – Michelle Obama
You can’t imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there’s no theory. There’s a little, wimpy box on top there. – Jeff Hawkins
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories. – Lucy Walker
Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess. – Robert Scoble
There’s a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. – Paul Broun
It’s interesting – what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it’s that old saying, isn’t it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There’s a product for sale in you and your data. – Riz Ahmed
I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there’s a continuity between philosophy and science in that way. – Robert Nozick
There are a number of fascinating stories included in ‘The Human Face of Big Data’ that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future. – Rick Smolan
No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers. – Orville Wright
I know plenty of people in China who don’t like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don’t want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either. – Rebecca MacKinnon
There is a shirt company that is making sensors that go into your clothing. They will watch how you sit, run or ski and give data on that information. – Robert Scoble
Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA’s Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.’s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special – it’s some sort of miracle. – Seth Shostak
It’s time to wake up to the fact that you’re just another avatar in someone else’s MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot. – Raph Koster
I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like. – Paolo Bacigalupi
The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty. – Robert Zubrin
What’s really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they’re all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else. – Robert Scoble
When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade. – Rob Portman
Realize you won’t master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes. – Robert Love
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge. – Rob Pike
Big Data is just that – big. But, it’s a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain. – Rick Smolan
I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and sometimes find myself regurgitating almost unconsciously. – Roseanne Barr
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem! – Roseanne Barr
I’d aspired to give people a profound education – to teach them something substantial. But the data was at odds with this idea. – Sebastian Thrun
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined. – Robert Metcalfe
We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere. – Satya Nadella
E-mail, when it became mobile – what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data – what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband. – Randall L. Stephenson
Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot. – Rand Paul
They’re trying to put data centers in cold environments because they’re actually generating so much heat now; they’re using up so much electricity. – Rick Smolan
