Quotes on data science and big data

Quotes by famous scientists, statisticians, and practitioners on big data, data science, simplicity, skepticism and questioning. Richard Feynman: You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity ... because the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought. John Tukey: Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise. Treveor Hastie: Data science is intrinsically applied statistics with a heavy load of computing. Gary Marcus: Big data can reduce anything to a single number, but you shouldn’t be fooled by the appearance of exactitude. Alan Turing: Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. Ian Witten: A large part of the data mining problem is coming up with the question that you’re asking and refining that question. Hadley Wickham: One of the attributes that has made me successful is that I am exquisitely sensitive to frustration. Hans Rosling: Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult. Tom Davenport: Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people Vala Afshar: to sustain growth and earn customer’s trust, businesses have to use common sense, care more ... must practice empathy