Quotes About Information

I deal in facts.

We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

CNN is in the business of sussing out what is true and what is false.

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.

If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

My dream is to build a tech company that helps people discover content.

I am an unrepentant tweetaholic. I use the communications service all day long to discover news, interesting tidbits and, of course, to flack the work of our tech and media news site, Re/code.

Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.

One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.

We live in a technical society.

Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

I enjoy learning technical details.

HD doesn't mean anything to me. It's a technical thing. It's like demographics. A lot of people know about it.

It's just about asking why. We as cooks historically have been very, very technically proficient but not technically informed as to why we do what we do. Modernist cuisine is about that knowledge.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

Columbo's deliberately irritating questioning technique - 'just one more thing' - is designed to produce discomfort rather than to elicit information.

I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

And I say in the book, 'Hard Measures,' that actually they were pretty wimpy if you really - if the American people actually knew what these techniques where, they would say, what are you talking about?

As an actress, I'm constantly watching different shows and films and am always gathering information and inspiration for characters and techniques to make my performances the best they can be.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

People who believe in freedom of expression have spent several centuries fighting against censorship, in whatever form. We have to be certain the 'Net' doesn't become the site for technological book burning.

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.

We need to pass measures that protect consumers' private information while also encouraging new technological innovations.