Paul Rosenzweig, former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in DHS, and founder of homeland-security consultant Red Branch Consulting PLLC:

Large databases are effective [for this type of analysis] only to the extent they are actually comprehensive.

Straw Man:

Money for me, databases for you.

Dharmesh Shah:

If your data doesn't look weird, you're not looking hard enough.

David Brooks:

Falsity grows exponentially the more data we collect.

Emin Gün Sirer:

We cannot afford a graph database gap.

Jim Cortada:

We are almost at a point now where trying to do an inventory on all this data is almost a superfluous exercise. It's like trying to count all the stars in the sky.

Mary Meeker and Liang Wu:

The US government is currently experiencing the largest gap between revenue and expenses outside of WW I and WW II.