Hilary Mason Quotes

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

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

Data really powers everything that we do.

While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

... one of the things that will distinguish businesses into this next decade is ... how they use information.... I think it'll change culture, it'll change everything that you do. And I believe it'll differentiate the winners and the losers.

Respect for education—the idea that education will buy improvement in our lives—is one of the oldest and fundamental American ideas.

Give us 20 years, and you'll not recognize this country!

My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

All of these technologies that we are putting together... our memory technology, our CPU, our graphics architecture, our GPUs - all that is being applied to where the data is. You can almost predict where Intel will be in the future. It will be where data resides.

I believe that technology has the potential to change the fate of nations, industries and companies, as well as the context of our lives. I want to help build the companies that take the risks needed to make those kinds of real changes in the world.

I will talk about two sets of things. One is how productivity and collaboration are reinventing the nature of work, and how this will be very important for the global economy. And two, data. In other words, the profound impact of digital technology that stems from data and the data feedback loop.

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

I always believe in using technology for a positive result.

We should be focused on how to make people's lives better. That is the purpose of technology.

A lot of people forget that anything is accomplishable if you embrace technology.

I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it.

Technology is such a big part of our lives. It makes everything easier. It doesn't make sense to fight against it. We need to set limits and learn how to use it so that we can go to places that we have never been to before.

For a country like ours that needs to stay ahead of the world or go under, we must do great, ambitious things - like going to the moon - to survive.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.