“This is not feminism. This is corporate media doing what corporate media has always done and trying to fool you into thinking there’s some cooler, nobler angle. Spoiler: There isn’t.”— Bitch Media, bitchmedia.org
“Of course Alexa knows all the things you ask it — but that's only the beginning.”— Ina Fried, axios.com
“Facebook’s claiming that it is not selling user data is like a bar giving away a free martini with every $12 bag of peanuts and then claiming that it’s not selling drinks. Rich user data is Facebook’s most prized possession, and the company sure isn’t throwing it in for free.”— Michal Kosinski, Casey Newton, theverge.com
“Nash: Alicia, does our relationship warrant long-term commitment? I need some kind of proof, some kind of verifiable, empirical data. Alicia: I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance.”— Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar, John Nash, Russell Crowe, imdb.com
“Not too long ago TV Guide had a million subscribers who paid the magazine to point them to the best shows on TV. These shows, it is worth noting, were free to the viewers. TV Guide allegedly made more money than all three major TV networks it 'guided' combined.”— Kevin Kelly, amazon.com
“Niander Wallace: Mere data makes a man. A and C and T and G. The alphabet of you. All from four symbols. I am only two: 1 and 0. 'K': Half as much but twice as elegant, sweetheart.”— Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, K, Ryan Gosling, imdb.com
“Finding truth is more than a search for data. It’s an excavation of self. You have to keep going, no matter where it takes you. Because nothing can stay hidden forever.”— Nevin Densham, Takeshi Kovacs, Joel Kinnaman, imdb.com
“Jai Wilcox: Datatech, It's a computer security clearance. It's like comic-con for nerds. Annie Walker: Isn't that just comic-con?”— Matthew Lau, Annie Walker, Piper Perabo, imdb.com
“Corporate loves its data. I'm not sure it'll actually make a difference, but it does give us an argument.”— Bill Rotko, Dr. Neil Melendez, Nicholas Gonzalez, imdb.com
“All the cool services are getting data dumps—that little link you click somewhere in a settings menu that triggers the service to send you all the data it collects from you (and everything you’ve used it to do, theoretically).”— David Murphy, lifehacker.com
“It's also possible to see the data Facebook has collected on them over the years. This includes old messages, poke history and which advertisers have access to your data.”— Kaya Yurieff, money.cnn.com
“We’re seeing more requests for access to publishers’ first-party data. Everyone’s trying to claim they should own the data in the marketing relationship. It’s an aggressive ask, so hopefully publishers are considering the ramifications.”— David Spiegel, digiday.com
“This is one of the craziest things about the modern age. We would never let the government or a corporation put cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on us. But we just went ahead and did it ourselves because — to hell with it!”— Dylan Curran, theguardian.com
“Snap is building out the same kind of API that just got Facebook into a whole mess of trouble.”— Kurt Wagner, recode.net
“Big data can absorb individual voices, so much so that the self, the interpreter, may seem vulnerable, even lost.”— Sara van den Berg, amazon.com
“A hot-standby is a PostgreSQL replica that allows you to run read-only SQL queries, contrary to a regular standby that does not allow any SQL queries to be executed.”— Yorick Peterse, about.gitlab.com
“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”— Charles Babbage, amazon.com
“A lag time exists between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com