“Everything needs more data. The day is not far when you’ll need a gigabyte of flash in a smart phone,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, the CEO of Micron Technology.
“Data mining is risky when only focusing on the past. When a decision is widely believed it becomes widely used. The value of a widely known insight disappears over time. Some decision rules become so popular that it becomes wiser to do the opposite. Computers have no common sense,” said the legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio.
“No one wins in a trade war, and manufacturing workers are hopeful the administration's approach will quickly yield results,” said National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) president and CEO Jay Timmons.
“You are the average of the last five people you spend the most time with,” said Peter Diamandis, the founder of the Singularity University.
“When the stock goes up 30% in a month don’t think you’re 30% smarter, because when it falls 30% in a month you’ll look 30% dumber,” said Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man.
“I’m prepared to eat our children because if I don’t, somebody else will,” said Sir Martin Sorrell about the extreme competitiveness of online marketing.
“The French have more fun in one year than the English do in 10,” said John Adams, America’s second president, and one-time ambassador to Paris and London.
“Honesty was never a profit center on Wall Street,” said James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer.
"Getting information off the Internet is akin to trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom," said Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google.
"It's not always the troops that storm the beaches who are the right ones to set up the government," said Steve Vassallo from Foundation Capital about the resignation of founder Travis Kalanick from Uber.
