Top 35 Database Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Database Quotes from famous people such as Mike Quigley, Heather Brooke, John Sulston, Seth Moulton, M. J. Rose, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of El

The Russians hacked into the Illinois State Board of Elections. They got into the database.
Mike Quigley
Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.
Heather Brooke
In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents – otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.
John Sulston
I voted in support of H.R. 5192, which seeks to curb identity fraud by requiring the Social Security Administration (SSA) to develop a database that financial institutions can use to compare their consumer data against SSA records.
Seth Moulton
Don’t add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don’t put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.
M. J. Rose
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading – even browsing – an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
James Gleick
Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.
Blythe Masters
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems.
Charles Duhigg
McAfee’s No. 1 strength is that they have a fantastic R&D team, engineering, as well as research at the core of security: database threat management.
Renee James
Oracle’s latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
Larry Ellison
There’s nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the government sucking up all those utter instances in a database just in case they maybe want to bust you in five years.
Clive Thompson
There’s this list on Internet Movie Database that I’m on, and it’s called ‘Actors with High Body Counts.’ I’m always playing the bad guy.
Reggie Lee
Some of the uses being implemented for blockchain could actually work better with a database.
Brad Garlinghouse
Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe – while selling us the chance to know whether we’re Vikings or whatever, they’re amassing these huge DNA databases that are unimaginably valuable. Get people to pay you to add their DNA to this database. Genius!
Hannah Fry
I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.
Bonnie Bassler
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting.
Tom Coburn
In order to have a decentralised database, you need to have security. In order to have security, you need to – you need to have incentives.
Vitalik Buterin
Distributed ledgers are inherently harder to attack because instead of a single database, there are multiple shared copies of the same database, so a cyber stack would have to attack all the copies simultaneously to be successful.
Mark Walport
Your self-image is the result of all you have given your subconscious mind as a database, so regardless of your background, what you are willing to become is the only reality that counts.
Paul J. Meyer
I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to ‘hilarious pictures’ or ‘brilliant games’ to half their contacts database.
Naomi Alderman
When I served in the state Senate, I led the charge with then-Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries to end the stop-and-frisk database, which kept the personal information of everyone stopped and frisked by the NYPD, even if they weren’t arrested or issued a summons.
Eric Adams
If we want to make Tiger Woods’s or Al Gore’s face, the best thing would be to have them come to our light stage so we can scan their faces for our database. But in a couple of hours, all we can do is find a face which looks similar and then correct it.
Jimmy Lai
The U.S. obviously has all the evidence they need to prosecute bankers. They just need to search their own spy database and then there you go – 1,000 bankers in jail, a trillion dollars in fines. But it doesn’t happen. Instead, the spy network is being used to fight a copyright case. They used Prism to spy on me.
Kim Dotcom
The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems.
Marvin Minsky
When you spend time with potential customers, you get to hear about their struggles firsthand. You see their eyes light up with excitement or darken with confusion. You learn things you would never find in a survey, database, or questionnaire. You learn why people buy.
Jason Fried
Computing should be taught as a rigorous – but fun – discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn’t have to be boring.
Geoff Mulgan
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and… Wanda Sykes and John Legend… we’re adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that’s the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Henry Louis Gates
Blockchain technology, or distributed ledger technology, is just a way of using the modern sciences of encryption to enable entities to share a common infrastructure for database retention.
Blythe Masters
Background checks are an important part of keeping guns out of the wrong hands, but they are only as good as the information in the database.
Roy Cooper
When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you’ve heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.
Blythe Masters
My background industry is design – I code a lot, too – but there’s been this narrative of design in technology becoming more prominent. What the UI enables on Pinterest is this human activity that ends up creating a great database.
Evan Sharp
If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're

If you want a database, you don’t go out and say you’re going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
Parker Harris
Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they’re purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let’s get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of – innocent citizens.
John Mica
A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances.
Thomas R. Insel
The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through.
John Kennedy