“Industrial capitalism transformed nature’s raw materials into commodities, and surveillance capitalism claims the private realm of human experience as its raw material.”— Shoshana Zuboff
“The first and continuing task of the Children's Bureau is to get the facts and to make them known.”— Grace Abbott
“We're entering a world where data is going to be relied on for all kinds of decisions... and we need to have a way of talking about what's right and what's wrong.”— Hal Abelson
“Data is the pollution problem of the information age, and protecting privacy is the environmental challenge.”— Bruce Schneier
“Many intellectuals, many journalists, many policy makers are very hostile to the use of numbers.”— Gary Becker
“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science.”— Karl Pearson
“Intuition is what you use when you don't have all the data. It is a very important problem-solving tool.”— Joel A. Barker
“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”— Jim Barksdale
“Sea level is not rising at an alarming rate. It has been rising steadily for 10,000 years.”— Christopher Monckton
“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”— Charles Babbage