Clifford Stoll Quotes

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

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

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

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.

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.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Data is not intelligence.

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

Without a theory the facts are silent.

It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent