Industry perspective on Data & AI

A few quotes we align with.

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Stanford / deeplearning.ai
2017

“AI is the new electricity.”

Andrew Ng
Co-founder, Coursera; Founder, Deeplearning.ai
Stanford GSB (talk/transcript) →
Stanford (Human-Centered AI)
2023

“The future of AI is not about man versus machine, but man with machine.”

Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science
Axios (interview) →
Meta (Facebook AI Research)
2019

“If intelligence was a cake, self-supervised learning would be the cake; supervised learning the icing.”

Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist
deeplearning.ai (excerpt of LeCun talk) →
Fast Forward Labs / Cloudera

“The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world you didn’t know before.”

Hilary Mason
Founder, Fast Forward Labs (data scientist)
CareerFoundry (quote collection referencing Hilary Mason) →
University of Toronto / Google (former)
2025

“People haven’t got it yet; people haven’t understood what’s coming.”

Geoffrey Hinton
Computer scientist; Nobel laureate (2024)
CBS News (interview) →
U.S. Government / industry
2012

“Ideas for data products tend to start simple and become complex; if they start complex, they become impossible.”

D.J. Patil
Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
Goodreads (quote from "Data Jujitsu") →