Vinod Khosla Quotes

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

Data helps solve problems.

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

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

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.

We are drowning in information.

Artificial intelligence, machine learning... cell therapy, immunotherapy. There's just a constant stream of investment ideas we could pursue better in that fashion.

There's a whole company called Palantir that does nothing but derive and create algorithms riches to search through big data. We're not using their capabilities. For heaven's sake, some of this is just ineptitude.

The most important question regarding Big Data at almost any company is: How much are your customers really worth?

Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

In fact, the private sector is improving their algorithmic ability to search through big data month after month after month. And, of course, a big government bureaucracy isn't keeping up.