"The world is one big data problem."

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Source : George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, Andrew McAfee (2014). “Leading Digital: Turning Technology Into Business Transformation”, p.5, Harvard Business Press

Andrew McAfee

#Data Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes #World Quotes

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.”
“Book values have some good and some bad features.”
“I'd never believed in luck. Never had any cause to. Never relied on it, because I never could.”
“Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch.”
“I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.”
“Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.”

Source : Christmas Humphreys (2012). “Exploring Buddhism”, p.179, Routledge

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