- “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford)
- "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine” (Peter Sondergaard, Senior Vice President, Gartner)
- “War is 90% information.” (Napoleon Bonaparte)
- "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, CEO, IBM)
- “Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the web like deer on a freeway.” (Geoffrey Moore, author and consultant)
- “The world is one big data problem.” (Andrew McAfee)
- “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I’m not kidding.” (Hal Varian, chief economist at Google)
- “The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.” (Sherlock Holmes, fictional detective)
- "The most valuable commodity I know of is information." (Gordon Gekko, Wall Street)
- "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have our opinions, let’s go with mine." (Jim Barksdale, former Netscape CEO)
- “Processed data is information. Processed information is knowledge, Processed knowledge is Wisdom.” (Ankala V. Subbarao)