Data Utility Quotes

Data can set you free.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be the ones who are best able to extract great value from them. The way to create value in the age of genius machines will be to compile and disseminate knowledge that other people will find useful.

Often, people think that individual data is the most valuable thing they can collect. But it's not useful to know what I am doing or where I am, unless you're particularly interested in me, which is weird. But it is very useful to know what a population of people are doing.

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.