You can’t tell what’s aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards. – Christopher Buckley
It turns out that with Twitter data alone, we can go quite some way into figuring out someone’s personality. – Anthony Goldbloom
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players. – Anthony Goldbloom
I wrote an editorial piece in ‘Science’ about the nightly data release and how I thought it was bad for science as a field, I think a few years before Celera was formed. – Craig Venter
The math works. Over the course of a season, there’s some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There’s so much data that you can predict: individual players’ performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off. – Billy Beane
Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there’s very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can’t. – Andy Weir
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains. – Bernard Ebbers
And I think it’s likely that there will be Data’s out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me! – Brent Spiner
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we’ll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions. – Aaron Koblin
I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty. – Brent Spiner
Pulling the plug on the BlackBerry could cost corporate America millions of dollars. The BlackBerry is more than e-mail but a handheld office, and if you shut down the BlackBerry, you shut off the data that powers American business. – Al Smith
If you are just using the service to look at Web sites and download e-mail, then a DSL line may be cheaper. It is when you have more data going out that wireless can make a difference. – Blake Farenthold
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me – it was the sublime quality of patience – patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment – which I sadly lacked. – Abdus Salam
It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm’s very bright future. – Colin Angle
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn’t share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked. – Burt Rutan
Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years. – Ben Bernanke
Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be. – Anthony Goldbloom
There’s enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer. – Anne Wojcicki
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
You don’t get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You’re always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information. – Bruce Sterling
And we invested three hundred thousand dollars, became the lead investor and I became Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems, as I was at Intel for a while. – Arthur Rock
Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government. – Arthur C. Brooks
23andMe is pleased to bring public funding to bear on data and research driven by the public – our more than 180,000 customers. – Anne Wojcicki
The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don’t think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country. – Austan Goolsbee
I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there’s an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers – not many industries do. – Anita Elberse
When you’re doing kidney transplants, you have to find out who can exchange kidneys with whom, doing blood tests to make sure it’s true. You can’t just work on the preliminary data. Then you have to organize the logistics. – Alvin E. Roth