Welcome to the world of databases, where data transforms into valuable insights, powering countless applications and businesses worldwide. From the early days of punch cards and magnetic tapes to the modern era of cloud-based databases, the evolution of this technology has been nothing short of remarkable. As the backbone of information management, databases play a crucial role in organizing, storing, and retrieving data efficiently, making them indispensable in today’s digital landscape.
Database systems come in various forms, ranging from relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL to NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra. Each type offers unique features tailored to specific use cases, whether it’s handling structured data in traditional relational databases or accommodating unstructured data in non-relational databases. Regardless of the type, databases serve as the cornerstone of data-driven decision-making, empowering businesses to extract actionable insights and drive innovation.
Below, you’ll find a curated collection of quotes that encapsulate the essence of databases, offering insights, humor, and wisdom from experts and enthusiasts alike. Feel free to copy these quotes, pair them with captivating visuals, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share and inspire others in the realm of data management and technology. Let’s dive into the world of database quotes and uncover the wisdom they hold.
My books are not really books; they’re endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles. Mary Roach
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. Ted Nelson
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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard. Bjarne Stroustrup
I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around 21 million papers. Alexandra Elbakyan
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
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
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
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
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
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
A distributed ledger is basically a shared database that allows institutions to directly send and receive money in a trustworthy fashion without a middleman. As a result, we have the capacity to connect the world’s payment systems for the first time.That’s a big deal. Chris Larsen
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
I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to ‘hilarious pictures’ or ‘brilliant games’ to half their contacts database. Naomi Alderman
With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don’t identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom. Richard Stallman
It doesn’t matter if it’s first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps – any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information. Nick Foles
I said it’s impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don’t have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them. David Blunkett
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
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. Tom Coburn
Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It’s in the best interest of organisations – when they’re attacked and information is stolen – to tell nobody. Kevin Mitnick
I literally have a massive database of cat sounds. El-P
If a company has a navigation system or a database or a virtual assistant they like better, Microsoft will meet them in the middle. Peggy Johnson
Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials. Michael Hayden
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
There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems. Charles Duhigg
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
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 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
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
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
The ledger, the distributed database – it’s called a Blockchain – is held in the cloud by all the parties involved. It can’t be broken by any of them. It’s cryptographically too strong. You would have to compromise the entire network to take over Bitcoin. Naval Ravikant
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
Some of the uses being implemented for blockchain could actually work better with a database. Brad Garlinghouse
One of O’Reilly’s advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to whom we advertise our products, and they spread the word. If you don’t have that database, it’s hard to get the attention of the market. Tim O’Reilly
It is immensely motivating to be given so much love and appreciation on IMDb, which is the biggest database for movies and celebrities in the world. Mithila Palkar
We can only query against that which we have collected. And so if someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing show up because we have no record of them. James Comey
It’s very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China because our view is, users come to a platform; they really don’t care whether it is professional or whether it’s a user-generated, or it’s premium, you see. They want to come to a big database to be able to find the content they want. Victor Koo
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
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
Most developer tools try to shield you from actually writing code in constructing the GUI bits or the database bits. Yet when you do write code you usually get glass teletypes where high tech is keyword coloring. James Gosling
The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don’t have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database. Kevin Mitnick
We think we’re going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: our database brand is the Oracle Database 12c, and our programming language brand is this thing called Java. Larry Ellison
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
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
Whenever the creation of a national, computerized database of gun owners is proposed, the advocates pushing it insist that people have nothing to fear because politicians will not abuse the enormous power inherent in such a database. Wayne LaPierre
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people – ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language. Larry Ellison
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
Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven’t talked to people at Google, but it’s pretty clear to me why. It’s because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don’t have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else. Tim O’Reilly
‘YouKu’ means what’s best and what’s cool in Chinese. So, the whole product philosophy really revolves around how to help users, from a massive video database, finds what’s best and what’s cool. Victor Koo
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
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
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
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
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
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
The old question ‘Is it in the database?’ will be replaced by ‘Is it on the blockchain?’ William Mougayar
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
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
The NICS database has holes big enough to drive a Mack truck through. John Kennedy