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From: Gregory Piatetsky
Date: 12 Mar 2007
Subject: Who first said "Drowning in Data yet Starving for Knowledge" ?

Who first said:

Drowning in Data yet Starving for Knowledge

Please reply to editor at kdnuggets dot com if you know.

Note: In my 1991 book "Knowledge Discovery in Databases", in the introduction chapter co-authored by William J. Frawley, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, and Christopher J. Matheus we used this somewhat related sentence:

Computers have promised us a fountain of wisdom
but delivered a flood of data

to describe the motivation for Knowledge Discovery.


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