75+ Data Science Quotes By Industry Leaders

Ankita Ghosh

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Updated: January 19th, 2023

75+ Data Science Quotes By Industry Leaders

Data science is a popular field of computer science in which analysts and researchers extract knowledge from each and every piece of data using methods such as statistical analysis. It's a fascinating field that allows you to make sense of the world around you by exploring data.

Today data science is more relevant than ever before. The world is generating more data every second, and it's not just generated by ourselves but also by our cars and our appliances. There are so many tools available to process and analyze this data that we've only just begun to scratch the surface of what can be done with it.

Let us take a look at some popular data science quotes to understand this field a little better.

Top Data Science Quotes

Consumer data will be the biggest differentiator in the next two to three years Whoever unlocks the reams of data and uses it strategically will win. — Angela Ahrendts

Data is the new oil. — Clive Humby

Data is becoming the new raw material of business. — Craig Mundie

Data levels all arguments. — Anthony W. Richardson

That which cannot be measured cannot be proven. — Anthony W. Richardson

I never guess. 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

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Hiding within those mounds of data is the knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world. — Atul Butte

Maybe stories are just data with a soul. — Brené Brown

Everybody has certain red flags they want to keep an eye on, and big data tools enable you to do that is fairly close to real-time. — Brian Loughman

The data speaks for itself. That’s the easiest measure of success. — Caitlin Smallwood

You imagine a data set & you salivate at just thinking about that data set. — Caitlin Smallwood

Discovering things about people through their data was really a cool thing. — Caitlin Smallwood

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

We have to learn to interrogate our data collection process, not just our algorithms. — Cathy O’Neil

The best way to learn data science is to do data science. — Chanin Nantasenamat

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories. — Chip & Dan Heath

Big data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to cloud to gaming. — Chris Lynch

The great thing about predictions is that you can be wrong. — Chris Wiggins

Learning how to do data science is like learning to ski. You have to do it. — Claudia Perlich

Aim for simplicity in Data Science. Real creativity won’t make things more complex. Instead, it will simplify them. — Damian Duffy Mingle

In Data Science if you want to help individuals, be empathetic and ask questions; that way, you can begin to understand their journey, too. — Damian Duffy Mingle

Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. — Dan Ariely

We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions. — Dan Ariely

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data. — Daniel Keys Moran

As data scientists, our job is to extract signals from noise. — Daniel Tunkelang

I like to think of data as the new soil, Get in and get your hands dirty. — David McCandless

The next Darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape. — David Weinberger

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman

Without a systematic way to start and keep data clean, bad data will happen. — Donato Diorio

Data that sit unused is no different from data that were never collected in the first place. — Doug Fisher

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent. — Douglas Merrill

Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right But only humans can do the next right thing. — Dov Seidman

Above all else, show the data. — Edward R. Tufte

Data’s just the world making noises at you. — Erin Shellman

Amazing Data Science Quotes

The most interesting types of data are those collected for one purpose and used for another. — Erin Shellman

As a data scientist, even if you don’t have the domain expertise you can learn it and can work on any problem that can be quantitatively described. — Erin Shellman

It’s a basic, intuitive right, worthy of enshrinement: Citizens, not the corporations that stealthily track them, should own their own data. — Franklin Foer

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore

All models are wrong, but some are useful. — George E. P. Box

The most valuable commodity I know of is information. — Gordon Gekko

Good Big Data teams will be very tolerant of failure. — Graham Oakes

Contact data ages like fish, not wine…it gets worse as it gets older, not better. — Gregg Thaler

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding. — Hal Varian

Let the dataset change your mindset. — Hans Rosling

Data isn’t information; information isn’t knowledge; knowledge isn’t wisdom. — Ian Lowe

Data really powers everything that we do. — Jeff Weiner

Above all get obsessed with data. — Jerry Yang

If we have data, let’s look at data If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine. — Jim Barksdale

Data will talk if you’re willing to listen to it. — Jim Bergeson

Learning from data is virtually universally useful Master it and you will be welcomed anywhere. — John Elder

Data scientists are kind of like the new Renaissance folks because data science is inherently multidisciplinary. — John Foreman

Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action. — John Maeda

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. — John Naisbitt

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data. — John Sculley

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. — John Tukey

The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. — John Tukey

That’s all data is. A gift from yesterday that you receive today to make tomorrow better. — Jon Acuff

One person’s data is another person’s noise. — K. C. Cole

There’s a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration. — Kathleen Sebelius

The more I analyze field data the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. — Kingsley Ofosu

Data that is loved tends to survive. — Kurt Bollacker

Destroy your money, you can earn more. Destroy your data, your existence is erased. — Kurt Seapoint

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool. — Larry Page

When used correctly, data is not the enemy of Intuitive Creative Thinkers; it is a powerful friend. — Leena Patel

With data collection, the sooner the better is always the best answer. — Marissa Mayer

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. — Mark Twain

Data is like garbage. You’d better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it. — Mark Twain

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. — Marshall McLuhan

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same. — Mary Leakey

Without big data, you are blind and deaf in the middle of a freeway. — Geoffrey Moore

Inspirational Data Science Quotes

Data science is all about asking interesting questions based on the data you have or often the data you don’t have. – Sarah Jarvis

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, and understanding is not wisdom. – Clifford Stoll

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

Big data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust. – Ginni Rometty

There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every two days. — Eric Schmidt

No data is clean, but most are useful. – Dean Abbott

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions. — Ernest Dimnet

We are surrounded by data but starved for insights. – Jay Baer

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. – Hilary Mason

If you wanna do data science, learn about cognitive biases, our alarming lack of statistical intuition, and how to correct them. – Hugo Bowne Anderson

Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. – Josh Wills

The person who is better at explaining the business implications of analytical results than any scientist, and better at analytical science than any MBA. – Dr. Jennifer Priestley

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn’t know before. – Hilary Mason

I do not know how you teach someone to love to learn, but being self-motivated is integral to this field. Once you have the core concepts, to be able to be really excited about, and continue to seek out, new information is something that I look for, for example, when we are recruiting people. – Shelly D. Farnham

There is no bottleneck for data scientists… The bottleneck is very often for companies who don’t have a culture of working with data to actually cut down the process into the right steps. – Lutz Finger

The big technology trend is to make systems intelligent and data is the raw material. – Amod Malviya

Data matures like wine, applications like fish. – James governor

I’m a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data. – Gus O’Donnell

Data is the Next Intel Inside. – Tim O’Reilly

Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it are the samurai. – Jonathan Rosenberg

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess. – Ronald H. Coase

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded. – Charles Fort

A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. God is a mathematician of a very high order, and He used very advanced mathematics in constructing the universe. – Paul A. M. Dirac

Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly. – Frederick Mosteller

An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question when the data it produces don’t prove anything one way or another. – Robert Pirsig

Beware of the problem of testing too many hypotheses; the more you torture the data, the more likely they are to confess, but confessions obtained under duress may not be admissible in the court of scientific opinion. – Stephen M. Stigler

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man & man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him. – Robert Heinlein

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Ankita Ghosh

I'm Ankita Ghosh and I am working with Starter Story as a content creator for more than a year. I write content around various business-related topics with the goal of helping small businesses launch and grow.

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