Seth Godin Quotes

Data without generalization is just gossip.

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

Data is not intelligence.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

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

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

All I'm armed with is research.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.

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

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

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

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

The information was correct but the interpretations were not.

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

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.