Data Quotes

Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it

...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

War is ninety percent information.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.

Good communication is not just data transfer. You need to show people something that addresses their anxieties, that accepts their anger, that is credible in a very gut-level sense, and that evokes faith in the vision.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.

We've had such thorough training, we've had an excellent team on the ground. With the minor glitches that have occurred, we've been able to take care of them. And the teams on the ground are getting tons of incredible data.

When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!

There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

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

The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

The historical data support one conclusion with unusual force: To invest with success, you must be a long-term investor.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.