Analytics and Big Data Quotes

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An assortment of analytics and big data quotes.

“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” ~ Jim Barksdale

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” ~ Albert Einstein
“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” ~ Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of HP

“The world is one big data problem.” ~ Andrew McAfee
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” ~ Thomas Edison
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~ Albert Einstein
“War is ninety percent information.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” ~ Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987)
“It is today we must create the world of the future.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein
“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” ~ Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective
“The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.” ~ John Tukey, American Mathematician
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist the facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ~ Sherlock Holmes
“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” ~ Peter Sondergaard

“Listening to the data is important… but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?” ~ Steve Lohr

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