"Data matures like wine, applications like fish." – James Governor

"If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine." – Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation.

“Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.” – Dan Ariely

“It’s easy to lie with statistics. It’s hard to tell the truth without statistics.” – Andrejs Dunkels

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” – Clifford Stoll

“With too little data, you won’t be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren’t real… Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.” – Douglas Merrill

“Listening to the data is important… but so is experience and intuition. After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?” – Steve Lohr

“We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.” – Larry Page

Sources :
http://bigdata-madesimple.com/30-thought-provoking-big-data-quotes-that-you-should-know/