“People rarely look the way you expect them to, even when you’ve seen pictures.”— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com
“The United States alone holds over 45 percent of the global pharmaceutical market. In 2016, this share was valued around 446 billion U.S. dollars.”— Statista, statista.com
“With over 45 billion messages sent a day in the US, and endless evidence that messaging is eclipsing social networking in terms of the number of monthly active users the jury is in: Messaging is the world’s new media channel.”— Vivian Rosenthal, forbes.com
“Time spent up-front understanding all of the nuances and intricacies of the data is time well spent.”— Marck Vaisman, amazon.com
“We have become like the most primitive paleolithic man, once more global wanderers, but information gatherers rather than food gatherers. From now on the source of food, wealth and life itself will be information.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“I'll bet the rest of my professional career that the future of your business is big data and machine learning applied to the business opportunities, customer challenges, and things before you.”— Eric Schmidt, businessinsider.com
“Machine learning only works when you have data — preferably a lot of data.”— Adam Geitgey, medium.com
“Who the hell wants to have a police officer put their hand on them or yell and scream at them? It’s an awful experience. Every black man I know has had this experience. Every one of them. It is hard to believe that the world is your oyster if the police can rough you up without punishment. And when…”— Roland G. Fryer Jr., nytimes.com
“On TV, there’s another war. Around and around and around. Even the most entrenched believers in the new global order have a mounting sense that some fundamental mindshift is needed. The contradictions of late-capitalist life put increasing pressure on our psyches to synthesize the data, yet insights…”— Rob Wipond, adbusters.org
“To Google, Auletta's book is just a series of ones and zeros—and not very many of them, compared with a movie. To Auletta, those ones and zeros were exceptionally expensive to create—at least in terms of time—since the technology that has revolutionized the cost of distributing text hasn't dramatica…”— Robert Levine, amazon.com
“Well the global brain is not something that's electronic and it has nothing to do with the World Wide Web and it has nothing to do with the Internet; we were World Wide Webbed and Internetted 3.5 billion years ago when life first began.”— Howard Bloom, amazon.com