David Cone Quotes

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

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.

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

Internet privacy is dwindling. Every purchase you make, flight you take, website you view, file you download, person you call, and e-mail you send is tracked. … and then stored indefinitely and often sold to the highest bidder—whoever that may be. Personal data, long thought to be confidential simply isn’t anymore.

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

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

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

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

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.

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones?

I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.

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

Like any extraordinary power, surveillance provides temptations for abuse, such as tracking political opponents and journalists.

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.

It's not Big Brother that we now have to be afraid of, but Big Browser.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

There's such a magnitude of record taking. It's so exhaustive. Bandwidth and hard drive space are able to accommodate limitless capacities to take a record of anything and everything.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.