Collection of Remarkable Quotes

There is no better way to describe compexity of information management and knowledge integration. It is also great motivating way to endorse business anlysis work. For your pleasure… 

“Turn data into a point of view that makes sense for decision makers.” 

Jean E. Engle

“We change technologies along the way, but information management doesn’t go all that far.” 

John E. Chickering, CRM

“Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership” 

Carly Fiorina

“ The job of a leader is not just to make decisions, it is to make meaning. ”

John Seeley Brown

“Too much to search through when seeking to know.”

John E. Chickering, CRM

“ One of the things we are starting to see from leading – edge places like Google is the need for graduates with the understanding and skill to cope in the new world of data intensive computing. ”

Professor Peter Lee, head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University  

If knowledge is power, then “ knowledge about power should be especially empowering, ”

John Murrell, Good Morning Silicon Valley

“We’ re pretty good at managing the data, but we have a way to go in managing the information.”

John E. Chickering, CRM

“The data is all out there, stored several times over — but what does it all mean?”

John E. Chickering, CRM

“In the Age of Analytics, as products and services become “ lighter ” (i.e., less physical and more digital), manufacturing and distribution costs —while still important — will be augmented with new metrics — the costs of know, the flow of know, and the costs of not – knowing.”

Thornton May

“ The quest to build a simulation is a scientific quest. Experimenting to test a hypothesis used to be the way to do science, but simulation is the new way. . . . ”

Will Wright

Analytics is “ the ability to look at the data and then turn that into a story; to be able to draw from all kinds of information and turn it into a story. ”

Frank Wrenn

” Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.”

Ambrose Bierce