Dan Simmons Quotes

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of where they come from and what the relation between them is.

Data really powers everything that we do.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

Collect it all!

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

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.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

Data is not intelligence.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.