Quotes About Information

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.

Information obtained from detainees at Guantanamo has been described by the CIA as 'the lead information' that enabled the agency to recognize the importance of a courier for Usama bin Laden, a crucial understanding that led to Bin Laden's secret hideout in Pakistan and the U.S. raid that killed him.

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

I was raised on the Internet.

The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal - when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn't talk about investigative journalism, even though that's our core.

Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

Patient autonomy is paramount to the oath that we take when we enter the profession of medicine. That is why I am appalled when the federal government gets between my patients and their right to the full range of medical information and complete access to health care.

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books, but maybe in a more ambitious way.

Research for fiction is a funny thing: you go looking for one piece of information, and find something altogether different.

Technology has brought us further than man could ever imagine, and it makes all information available. But it might not do the same exact thing that one human being asking another human being might do.

I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.

I come from the school who thought the Internet could be the great democratising force, that getting rid of the gatekeepers was a positive move.

You've got to do a lot of research. That's the biggest thing: I try to gather as much information as I can to maximize myself. Because if you're just standing still, you're going to be a dinosaur and everyone else will go around you. That's like my biggest fear.

We need to gather intelligence, but we need to do so legally.

I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Genes themselves are made of bits.

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

Your genome isn't really secret.

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.