Jerry Pournelle Quotes

Collect it all!

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

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

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.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

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.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

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

Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.

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.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

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.

Big data sets are never complete.

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.

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

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

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

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

We are drowning in information.

The bigger a data set that you have, the more polls, the more surveys that you have that people undertake, the more accurate your models are going to be. That's just a fact of data science.