Quotes About Information

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

I have my email on my Blackberry, and that's about it.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.

Anybody can write anything they want these days with social media, blogging, etc.

You know, I don't read the blogs, or go on the internet, and I really just don't know what people are saying because... well I guess I'm afraid to.

Because we grew up in Australia, to find information about a lot of blues guys, I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines. They didn't even sell them at the time in news agents and stuff.

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Everything isn't breaking news. You can't go to DEFCON One just because Sanjay Gupta found a new moisturizer.

One of my roles, and one of the things I'm good at, is breaking news.

The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.

When I sit down with my team before an engagement, sometimes they are horrified as I say I don't want to read the biographical brief because I prefer to prise information out of people. It becomes like a game. The stories that come out, I could write a book about.

Imagine what you could do if you had the ability to broadcast live video from anywhere, anytime. It changes the way news is gathered.

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.

In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.

I turn to people who've been successful running networks, building production companies, building music companies, and people who have done it, and I ask them about their successes. And you will see them light up and give you all the information you need.

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled.

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.

The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can suddenly create, free flow these globally distributed, organic, shaped networks of individuals.

I would never jeopardize classified information. I served my country well and loyally, and I had to sue the C.I.A. on First Amendment grounds.

I'd rather deal with a big company, because at least I can sue them, and see them, and know what they're doing. Google, for instance, shows you everything they've collected on you, with a clearly written privacy policy. They tell you what they're doing with it. I'm not scared by that.

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.