Big Data Quotes

Algorithms are opinions embedded in code. It’s really different from what you think most people think of algorithms. They think algorithms are objective and true and scientific. That’s a marketing trick. It’s also a marketing trick to intimidate you with algorithms, to make you trust and fear algorithms because you trust and fear mathematics. A lot can go wrong when we put blind faith in big data.

You have to imagine a world in which there's this abundance of data, with all of these connected devices generating tons and tons of data. And you're able to reason over the data with new computer science and make your product and service better. What does your business look like then? That's the question every CEO should be asking.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.

Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.

This is a magical time for computer programming. We are moving towards the artifical intelligence holy grail of programming the computer to simulate the human brain.

... one of the things that will distinguish businesses into this next decade is ... how they use information.... I think it'll change culture, it'll change everything that you do. And I believe it'll differentiate the winners and the losers.

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

Cloud computing is the third wave of the digital revolution.

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market.

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

I came in as an engineer and worked on artificial intelligence at Google. I worked on related sites and matching advertising to queries with some of our earliest ads.

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

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

There's a very long tail of all sorts of creative products - beyond our core web search, image search and advertising businesses - that are powered by deep learning.

The revolution in AI [artifical intelligence] has been profound. It surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

I think it's fair to say that the age of traditional computing is dead.

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

I'm a futurist.

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

We’re not used to calculating large amounts of data. Our brains think anecdotally.

Everybody in technology seems to want big numbers. Steve never got carried away with that. He focused on making the best.

I thought the best place to advance the AI mission is at Baidu.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.