Best Big Data Quotes and Provocative Data Thoughts | Part 1

Data is amazing in a way it creates insights for businesses, people and the world around us. I have gathered a list of my favorite quotes and provocative personal insights about data.
19. “Luck does not exist - it's just a function of data we tend to ignore”. – Nick Shopov
18. The world is one big data problem." – Andrew McAfee
17. “In God we trust. All others must bring data.” – W. Edwards Deming
16. “We used to live in a simple world. Then we found data and made it look complicated.” – Nick Shopov
15. “Experts often possess more data than judgement.” - Unknown
14. “Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a voice”. –Stephen Few
13. “Human brain is yet not capable to process so much information. Ignorance is a defensive system of the organism.” – Nick Shopov
12. “It’s easy to lie with statistics. It’s hard to tell the truth without statistics.”- Andrejs Dunkels
11. “Listening to the data is important… but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?”–Steve Lohr
10. “There are two paths in life – study data and grow wise, or ignore data and grow happy.”- Nick Shopov
9. “Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make [a] difference.” - Unknown
8. “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.” - Arthur Conan Doyle
7. “You are surrounded by big data in its purest form. Look around. Do you see it?” – Nick Shopov
6. “Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.” - Charles Babbage
5. “Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” – Ronald Coase
4. “Data got us started. Knowledge kept us going.” – Nick Shopov
3 “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient, or change the world.” – Atul Butte
2. “Data may not give you all the answers, but it will definitely give you few more important questions”. – Nick Shopov
1. "Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine." - Peter Sondergaard