Masayoshi Son Quotes

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

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

Data is the new oil.

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.

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.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

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

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.

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.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

Collect it all!

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

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

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.

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.

I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on it.

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

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

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

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

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

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.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.