Nation states are an artifact of a scarcity environment. Nation states can not compute abundance, they can not operate in that paradigm. - Salim Ismail

5P benefits of big data: productivity, prevention, participation, personalization and prediction.

When Kaggle runs a competition, it has found that the first responders are experts in a particular domain who say, "We know this industry, we've done this before and we'll figure it out." And just as inevitably, within two weeks, complete newcomers to the field trounce their best results.

Mark Zuckerberg agrees, noting, "The biggest risk is not taking any risk." Constant