Quotes About Information

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

I mean... mankind has for hundreds of years known that torture is not a very smart way to get information. It's horrible that we're going back to medieval times.

President Obama was right to ban torture, but the public must understand that this decision carries a potential cost in lost information. That's what makes it a moral choice.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

We shouldn't all be fixated just on what's not available. We should take a step back and look at the total that's available, because there's a mountain of information about us.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

Computers make me totally blank out.

Information is physical.

the key concept that ensures reversibility is conservation of information—if the information needed to specify the state of the world is preserved as time passes, we will always be able to run the clock backward and recover any previous state. That's where the real puzzle concerning the arrow of time will arise.

Buried in the Air under a mountain of irrelevant information, as all important things are. Nothing is hidden, and everything is ignored. The surveillance state doesn't need violence to perpetrate injustice. All it needs is our indifference.

Jede Propaganda ist so gefährlich wie die Dummheit, auf die sie trifft.

Before Google, I don't think people put much effort into the ordering of results. You might get a couple thousand results for a query. We saw that a thousand results weren't necessarily as useful as 10 good ones.

Google is all about getting the right information to people quickly, easily, cheaply -- and for free. We serve the world -- all countries, at least 100 different languages. It's a powerful service that most people probably couldn't have dreamed of 20 years ago. It's available to the rich, the poor, street children in Cambodia, stock traders on Wall Street -- basically everybody. It's very democratic.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

We believe that advertising is just another form of information, and consumers should be able to get that information in whatever form they like.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

The biggest problem in the world is not inequality. It's ignorance. It's the lack of access to education and information.

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.