Quotes About Information

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

Business needs to move to adopt much more scalable pull platforms. When we talk about pull platforms, often people focus on one level of pull, which is what we call access. It's simply, if I have a need, I can make a request, get the resource or the information I need when needed.

Most decisions don't require extensive research.

For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy.

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Whether greater cybersecurity requires a greater sacrifice of our digital freedoms is an important debate that we should be having, preferably with all the facts in front of us.

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.

What people actually refer to as research nowadays is really just Googling.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

All I'm armed with is research.

With the Internet you can research anything.

I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission.

I don't even have a computer in my office. If I had e-mail, I'd never take the time to read research or absorb information. I want to think about what I'm doing, and that takes time.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

Many news organizations have come to resemble the fact-starved blogs they once took pains to remain separate from.

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.