by Angela Guess
Hjalmar Gislason of DataMarket Blog recently put together a collection of the most insightful, useful, and sometimes funny quotes about data and information that he has come across over the last several years. Here are a few of the best ones:
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. -Craig Mundie, head of research and strategy, Microsoft
Data is the new oil! -Clive Humby, ANA Senior marketer’s summit, 2006
Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil. -David McCandless, TEDGlobal, 2010
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. -Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlett (Arthur Conan Doyle)
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. -Daniel Keys Moran
The most valuable commodity I know of is information. -Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987)
Torture the data, and it will confess to anything. -Ronald Coase, Economics, Nobel Prize Laureate
Data that is loved tends to survive. -Kurt Bollacker, Data Scientist, Freebase/Infochimps
Data matures like wine, applications like fish. -Andy Todd
If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. -Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO
i like the quates