“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. […] The ability to take data – to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualise it, to communicate it – thats going to be a hugely important skill in the next decades, not only at the proffesional level but even at the educational level…[…] Because now we really do have essentially fre and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it.”

Pentru alte  insighturi despre cum tehnologia informatiei influenteaza inovatia si modelele actuale de business, intregul interviu cu Hal Varian, profesor la Berkeley si printre altele economist sef la Google, poate fi citit sau vizionat aici .