If you were asked to share one inspirational thought about data, what would it be? From tech leaders to data ops experts, many people have shared their most thought-provoking quotes about data.
Here are some of our favorite quotes about data:
“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” — Geoffrey Moore
“In God we trust, all others bring data.” — W. Edwards Deming
“Data is the new oil.” — Clive Humby
“No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data.” — John Sculley
“Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” — Ronald Coase
“With data collection, ‘the sooner the better’ is always the best answer.” — Marissa Mayer
“Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.” — Douglas Merrill
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” — Sherlock Holmes
“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” — Daniel Keys Moran
“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” — Jim Barksdale
“Above all else, show the data.” — Edward R. Tufte
“Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.” — Chris Lynch
“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories – tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.” — Chip and Dan Heath
“Without a systematic way to start and keep data clean, bad data will happen.” — Donato Diorio
“Contact data ages like fish, not wine … it gets worse as it gets older, not better.” — Gregg Thaler
“Data really powers everything that we do.” — Jeff Weiner
“Data that is loved tends to survive.” — Kurt Bollacker
“Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.” — Charles Babbage
“Where there is data smoke, there is business fire.” — Thomas Redman