Marc Benioff Quotes

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

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 drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the data.

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.

The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

I'm an analytics girl.

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively.

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

Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world's largest emotion data repository.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

For me, the most exciting aspect of my success is how the insights that Ayasdi's technology has found in data can truly impact people's lives.

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be.

There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies.

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

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

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

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

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

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.