Inspiring Data Quotes to Remember in Your Spare Time

Hi guys! I have some spare time this weekend (while still writing my e-book), so I decided to revisit my old favorite games.

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Have you ever played Ace Attorney games previously? If not, that’s fine, as it doesn’t relate to the data world.

But I get a lot of inspiration from this game. Especially how I can be more critical-thinking and detail-oriented, as this game forces you to do that.

While this game is quite serious, there are many quotes I remember from, and of course, the most famous one:

Objection from Ace Attorney

While thinking about the quotes, I realize there are many data science quotes I also love.

So, at the spur of the moment, I decided to write about it and share it with you guys.

Nothing serious; I just want to share quotes you might relate to.

Here it is. Collection of my favorite data science quotes.

Value of Data

1. "Data is the new oil." - Clive Humby

2. "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine." - Peter Sondergaard

3. "Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers." - Pat Gelsinger

4. "Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves." - Tim Berners-Lee

5. "Data is the new currency." - Clive Humby

6. "Data is the new soil." - David McCandless

7. "Data is the new bacon." - Unknown

Data-Driven Decision Making

1. "Without data, you're just another person with an opinion." - W. Edwards Deming

2. "In God we trust. All others must bring data." - W. Edwards Deming

3. "Data beats emotions." - Sean Rad

4. "If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine." - Jim Barksdale

Data Processing and Analysis

1. "The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight." - Carly Fiorina

2. "Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom." - Clifford Stoll

3. "Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a voice." - Stephen Few

4. "Data will talk to you if you're willing to listen." - Jim Bergeson

5. "Torture the data, and it will confess to anything." - Ronald Coase

6. "The data tells you what to do; the mind tells you what not to do." - Avinash Kaushik

7. "Above all else, show the data." - Edward Tufte

Big Data and Its Impact

1. "Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening today." - Chris Lynch

2. "The world is one big data problem." - Andrew McAfee

3. "Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent." - Douglas Merrill

Data Science as a Field

1. "Data science is the sexiest job of the 21st century." - Harvard Business Review

2. "Data scientist is just a sexed-up word for statistician." - Nate Silver

3. "Data science is not just about building models, it's about building trust." - DJ Patil

4. "Data science is the transformation of data using mathematics and statistics into valuable insights, decisions, and products." - Field Cady

Data Management and Preparation

1. "Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it." - Mark Twain

2. "In data science, 80% of time spent prepare data, 20% of time spent complain about need for prepare data." - Big Data Borat

3. "Data matures like wine, applications like fish." - James Governor

4. "Data is just like crude. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used." - Michael Palmer

Models and Statistics

1. "All models are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box

2. "It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them." - Andrejs Dunkels

3. "The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard." - John Tukey

4. "Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write." - H.G. Wells

Data and the Future

1. "The best way to predict the future is to create it with data." - Unknown

2. "Data are becoming the new raw material of business." - Craig Mundie

Data Ethics and Responsibility

1. "Data is a tool for enhancing intuition." - Hilary Mason

2. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein

Miscellaneous Insights

1. "Data are just summaries of thousands of stories." - Chip & Dan Heath

2. "Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the samurai." - Jonathan Rosenberg

3. "In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test." - Adam Savage

4. "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." - Richard Hamming

5. "The art is not in making money, but in keeping it." - Proverb

Those are all some of my favorite quotes. Have something you would like to share as well? Let’s see it in the comments or the chat!

Anyway, I have mentioned above, but I currently writing about a Data Science end-to-end project e-book. I would try to write a sample portion that everyone could read and enjoy free so that I would appreciate your further feedback.

Stay tuned for that!