Stewart Butterfield Quotes

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.