Tim Berners-Lee Quotes

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

My business is the analytical framework.

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Collect it all!

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.

You look to Google, you see this incredible world of information, you see the advertising, but you also get Google Analytics. And Google Analytics coupled with Salesforce's sales and service and marketing means that both of our customers are going to have customer insights that they've never had before. That is really exciting.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Intelligence collection has its place—no question—… But no matter how important collection is, in the short and even the long run, it just doesn’t cost very much.

We… need to recalibrate our expectations for what we access as actionable intelligence. We need to lower that threshold to the appropriate level and we need to have a higher threshold tolerance for pain in the event that we miscalculate or things go wrong or people get caught or something happens.

… a closed world. … an almost perfect record of resisting change. … fragmented, loosely managed, and poorly coordinated. … often unable to gather intelligence about the things we care the most about. … analysts do not always tell the decision makers just how limited their information really is. … increasingly irrelevant to the new challenges presented by weapons of mass destruction. … espionage is always chancy at best. Still we have no choice but to do better.

Health data standardization is not so unlike trying to achieve world peace.. Everyone wants it, but no one is sure how to get there.

Every company has messy data, and even the best of AI companies are not fully satisfied with their data. If you have data, it is probably a good idea to get an AI team to have a look at it and give feedback. This can develop into a positive feedback loop for both the IT and AI teams in any company.