The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation. — W. Edwards Deming
It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable? — Bill Ford
Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework. — Jim Rohn
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. — William Osler
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. — John Tukey
Data really powers everything that we do. — Jeff Weiner
How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose. — Bill Gates
The best decisions are often made with data and evidence, not just gut feelings. — Jim Simons
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. — Alvin Toffler
Data are becoming the new raw material of business. — Craig Mundie
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage
Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful. — Dan Heath
You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company. — Chamath Palihapitiya
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Gathering Information Quotes
The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully. — Zhuge Liang
We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling. — John Pistole
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. — Eckhart Tolle
Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.
When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions. — Josh Kaufman
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose. — Bill Gates
I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it. — Austan Goolsbee
Gather up all your scattered dreams and build the life you love .
In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work. — Robert Mueller
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. — Bill Gates
I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously. — John Terry
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. — Ursula K. LeGuin
Data Collection Quotes
Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore
Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data. — Thomas Kuhn
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. — Hal Varian
Companies such as Google and Facebook rely on capturing as much data as possible to enhance their advertising targeting.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data. — Nick Bostrom
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. — Mark Twain
The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight. — Carly Fiorina
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it --three minutes; to collect the data in it --all my life. — Unknown
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions? — Patrick P. Gelsinger
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. — J. David Lewis-Williams
Collecting Information Quotes
Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination. — Massimo Vignelli
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. — Louis J. Freeh
Ethnography literally means 'a portrait of a people.' An ethnography is a written description of a particular culture - the customs, beliefs, and behavior - based on information collected through fieldwork. — Marvin Harris
The store of collective human knowledge is diluted by 50% each year. — Mo Gawdat
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product. — Aldrich Ames
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. — Chris Cannon
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation. — Chief Joseph
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting. — Vladimir Putin
You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't. — John Hurt
It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously. — Wilson Bryan Key
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. — Jack Kevorkian
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. — Ronald Coase
When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being. — Rose Tremain
Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing. — Michael Polanyi
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function. — Richard Restak
Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving. — John Dewey
Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference. — Michael J. Schmoker
If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations. — Kenneth Waltz
Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not just about your movements. It's about who you are with and what you will do next. — Daniel Suarez
Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing. — Robert Kegan
.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input. — Eric Jensen
Our racing simulator is more about gathering data about the car, trying different setups, and trying to find speed in the actual racecar as opposed to speed in the actual driver. There's no other way to get that kind of testing in, without doing the actual event, or getting outside and spending the money to make it happen. And it costs a lot to go to the racetrack. — Martin Truex Jr.
In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong. — Steven Pinker
You can only analyze the data you
have. Be strategic about what to
gather and how to store it — Marie Curie
Wisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes. — Alan Briskin
Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing data. — Henry Giroux
Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours. — Missy Mazzoli
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger. — Arundhati Roy
And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women) indicating that women globally contribute two-thirds of the world's work hours, for which - given the imbalanced, unjust, and truly peculiar nature of the accounting characteristic of dominator economics - they globally earn only one-tenth of what men do and own a mere one-hundredth of the world's property. — Riane Eisler
What got repressed-sometimes viciously repressed-by the strategy-concept makers, consultants, and data gatherers was a consciousness of people and their importance in the creation and execution of any strategy. — Walter Kiechel
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge. — Peter Medawar
If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey
There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference. — Dennis Miller
If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather. — Steven Weinberg
Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over. — James Surowiecki
I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research. — Robert Pozen
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