“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items. -- From The Devil's DP Dictionary”
“Services isolated on business logic can share data sources with other systems.”
“If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.”
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
“Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.”
“Data data everywhere, and not a thought to think!”