Daniel Keys Moran Quotes

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Data is not intelligence.

Above all else show the data.

Science is a way of equipping yourself with the tools to interpret what happens in front of you.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store it. But if it's a movie, a poem, a song, it doesn't know what it's actually saying or doing.

Science is a wonderful way of getting out what's real.

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

Facts are often complicated.

Data can set you free.