Mark Thompson

“The plural of anecdote is not data.”
― Marc Bekoff

“Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days”
― Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

“And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) which we do not suspect. And as for that object, it depends on chance whether we come upon it or not before we ourselves must die.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Above all else show the data.”
― Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information