Jeff Weiner Quotes

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

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

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

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

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

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

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Data helps solve problems.

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

Now that every smartphone user is a potential collector of intelligence, the key is to skillfully sort the data. Although no structural obstacle prevents the U.S. intelligence community from doing this work well, there remains a strong bias, bordering on elitism, against using freely available information.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

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.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Data is not intelligence.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

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.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.