Ken Thompson Quotes

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

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

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.

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.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

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

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

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

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

You and I are streaming data engines.

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.

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.

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

Collect it all!

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

Data is the new oil.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

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.

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.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

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.

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

Big data sets are never complete.