Data Integrity Quotes

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

What’s the difference between my fabricating reports and your letting your agents do it? At least mine make sense.

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

We should be careful not to vilify encryption itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce.

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.

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

People used to be unhappy that files and data of Aramco are undeclared, unclear, and not transparent.

OSHA can’t and won’t do its job…. the current OSHA injury and illness information is inaccurate in part due to wide-scale underreporting by employers and OSHA’s willingness to accept these falsified numbers

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Digital information, for every type of storage, is unfounded. If everything is on a hard drive and the hard drive freezes up, your whole photography collection could just go away. We can still look at printed photographs of our grandparents. We can physically hold them in our hands and look at it.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

Besides, does it really matter who hacked Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton's election campaign team database? Does it? What really matters is the content shown to the community. This is what the discussion should be held about.

Don’t push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

Some of the uses being implemented for blockchain could actually work better with a database.

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has the chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted and incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda and deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and make him something less than a man.