“People share and put billions of connections into this big graph every day. We don’t want to just add incrementally to that. We want, over the next five or ten years, to take on a road map to try to understand everything in the world semantically and map everything out. These are the big themes for us and is what we are going to try and do over the next five or ten years. That is what I have tried to focus us on …” Mark Zuckerberg ( September 11, 2013 )

“The truth is, that we need more, not less, data interpretation to deal with the onslaught of information that constitutes big data. The bottleneck in making sense of the world’s most intractable problems is not a lack of data, it is our inability to analyse and interpret it all.” Christian Madsbjerg

“A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.” Bill Gates

“The brain is nothing but a statistical decision organ.” H. Barlow

“Give a man a fish – feed him for a day Teach him how to fish – feed him for a life time!” n.n.

“Current machine learning systems operate, almost exclusively, in a statistical, or model-free mode, which entails severe theoretical limits on their power and performance. Such systems cannot reason about interventions and retrospection and, therefore, cannot serve as the basis for strong AI. To achieve human level intelligence, learning machines need the guidance of a model of reality, similar to the ones used in causal inference tasks.” Judea Pearl ( July 2018 )

“Without statistics, big data is never going to reach its full potential. And perhaps even more importantly, without informed consumers, big data can be used for misleading and downright dangerous conclusions.” Andrew Pease ( November 3, 2014 )

“Mix of algorithms is almost always better than one single algorithm.” Caitlin Smallwood

“Model’ means different things to different people and different things at different times.” Kevin Gray

“Be the Google of Your Organization: Everybody understands that data is key to Google’s dominance. Companies across every industry are trying to establish themselves as the owners and users of the best data available. Watching this data gold rush, it can be easy to forget about the opportunities much closer to home. Within your company, some people are using data to create and advocate effective strategic arguments. How do you ensure that you are a Google within your company, instead of an Alta Vista?” Matt Ritter ( January 5, 2016 )