Analytics and Big Data Quotes.

Here is a collection of data quotes. If you have suggestions on more to add let us know.

“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” ~Peter Sondergaard
“There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.” ~Eric Schmidt
“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” ~Geoffrey Moore
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” ~Thomas Edison
“Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors” ~Vinod Khosla
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~Albert Einstein
“Data beats emotion.” ~Sean Rad
“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” ~Carly Fiorina
“Without a systematic way to start and keep data clean, bad data will happen.” ~Donato Diorio
“War is ninety percent information.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte
“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” ~Geoffrey Moore
“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” ~Jim Barksdale
“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” ~Gordon Gekko, Wall Street (1987)
“Above all else, show the data.” ~Edward R. Tufte
“Consumer data will be the biggest differentiator in the next two to three years. Whoever unlocks the reams of data and uses it strategically will win.” ~Angela Ahrendts
“In God we trust. All others must bring data.” ~W. Edwards Deming
“We are moving slowly into an era where Big Data is the starting point, not the end.” ~Pearl Zhu
“Where there is data smoke, there is a business fire.” ~Thomas Redman
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist the facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ~Sherlock Holmes
“It’s easy to lie with statistics. It’s hard to tell the truth without statistics.” ~Andrejs Dunkels
“Listening to the data is important… but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?” ~Steve Lohr
“Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.” ~Thomas H. Davenport
“Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” ~Ronald Coase
“The same way ebusiness just became part of business, big data will just be data.” ~Dave Waters
“Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening.” ~Chris Lynch
“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” ~Daniel Keys Moran
“Hiding within those mounds of data is the knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” ~Atul Butte
“It is today we must create the world of the future.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Big data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust.” ~Ginni Rometty
The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding.” ~Hal Varian
“Where there is data smoke, there is business fire.” ~Thomas Redman
“Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers.” ~Pat Gelsinger
“Data quotes are only useful if you take action.” ~Dave Waters
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ~ Albert Einstein
“In the end you should only measure and look at the numbers that drive action, meaning that the data tells you what you should do next.” ~Alexander Peiniger