Keith B. Alexander Quotes

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One can doubt the sincerity of the technology community’s outrage over the NSA’s surveillance practices—doubt, for example, that the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose company reportedly stores petabytes’ worth of data about its billion-plus active monthly users, was shocked at the thought of mass data collection.

Big data sets are never complete.

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

Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

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

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

If information is gathered, history shows that it will be used at some time.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

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.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

We don't use the term 'big data' - not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.

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.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.