“I'm an information grazer. I've always felt comfortable with skidding across vast plains of data, connecting the dots wherever it feels right.”— Fred Tomaselli, edge.org
“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 think big data is so powerful that nation states will fight over how much data matters.”— Eric Schmidt, businessinsider.com