David Rose Quotes

Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is.

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

The only thing that matters on Imgur is the quality of the content.

Companies that rely on licensing a proprietary dataset should expect to be outpaced by competitors using modern data collection techniques and more frequent updates and greater accuracy.

Qwiki is a game changer. The team has succeeded in creating an entirely new media format that will drastically improve the web experience.

The biggest challenge in big data today is asking the right questions of data. There are so many questions to ask that you don't have the time to ask them all, so it doesn't even make sense to think about where to start your analysis.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

Just because something is current doesn't mean it is new.

Big data sets are never complete.

We don't use the term 'big data' - not on our website, not with customers. Saying it sets up expectations, the wrong expectations.

A newspaper is complete. It is finished, sure of itself, certain. By contrast, digital news is constantly updated, improved upon, changed, moved, developed - an ongoing conversation and collaboration. It is living, evolving, limitless, relentless.

YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.

That's a nice thing about being a topical standup: you can add in things to keep it fresh.

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

Make sure you're doing impressions of people that are still relevant, and that everyone knows. Red Skelton impressions are a little outdated.

Is this a topic whose time has truly come? The integration of science and religion? Or have I just written a clever book that temporarily impressed a few people and will otherwise go as quickly as it came?

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