10 powerful quotes about data

In God we trust. All others must bring data. – W. Edwards Deming

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. – Tim Berners-Lee

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. – Geoffrey Moore

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. – Carly Fiorina

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. – Clifford Stoll

Data beats emotions. – Sean Rad

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways. – Max Levchin

Torture the data, and it will confess to anything. – Ronald Coase

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories—tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful. – Chip & Dan Heath

We are moving slowly into an era where big data is the starting point, not the end. – Pearl Zhu