“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
“Intuition is what you use when you don't have all the data. It is a very important problem-solving tool.”— Joel A. Barker
“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
“Many intellectuals, many journalists, many policy makers are very hostile to the use of numbers.”— Gary Becker
“You can’t hire a data scientist and ask them to find insights. You have to have a theory about what you are trying to do.”— Clayton Christensen
“People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.”— Michael Lewis
“The difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important.”— Neal Stephenson
“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
“I feel very strongly that the data is the data, but the data is not the truth. The data is only an approximation of the truth.”— Kathryn Anastos
“Data isn't the new oil. It's the new plutonium: immensely powerful, dangerous, and with a toxic half-life.”— Jim Balsillie