Data Management Quotes

Banking is a branch of the information business.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

When I was working in Japan, I created a system for ensuring that intelligence data was globally recoverable in the event of a disaster. I was not aware of the scope of mass surveillance. I came across some legal questions when I was creating it. My superiors pushed back and were like, "Well, how are we going to deal with this data?" And I was like, "I didn't even know it existed."

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

The United States Intelligence community collects too much information.

We need a new generation of executives who understand how to manage and lead through data. And we also need a new generation of employees who are able to help us organize and structure our businesses around that data.

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

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

It is impossible to write ancient history because we do not have enough sources, and impossible to write modern history because we have far too many.

Data really powers everything that we do.

The cure to information overload is more information.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet, works like a bookkeeper, and writes like a journalist.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification.

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

Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

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

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.