Quotes About Information

Humanity is an assemblage of information-processing entities, and in that regard you have potential.

The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, their insularity. My alert was a simple radio frequency trigger, with just enough power to reach beyond the estate. A risk even in that, but one worth taking." "You keep saying them," Dreyfus said. "For a reason," Stasov answered.

So the next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.

Access to the security clearance database would disgorge even more detailed personal information, including the foreign contacts of American officials.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

A lot of individuals have had their personal information compromised, and then we've seen just about every corporation in this country hacked or attempted to be hacked by foreign countries.

Cybersecurity is a central part of the FBI's mission. It's one part of the broader safety net we try to provide the American people: not only safe data, safe personal information, but also safe communities, safe schools.

It's hypocritical to say when things are going well, 'Interview me. Ask me how great I am. Ask me about family and personal life.' At some point later, when someone wants information and you want to draw the line, how do you do that?

But as soon as Facebook decided that they wanted to become purveyors of news, suddenly you have these highly personalized newsfeeds where everything is based on what your friends like, what you like, things that you've read in the past.

Personally, what scares me most is the thoughtlessness the Internet can perpetuate.

As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook get to decide whether or not you get pertinent information about national security issues in your country.

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story of the moment happens to be.

What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

The instruction manual for my Motorola phone is bigger and heavier than the phone.

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone.

I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

There's a large percentage of mobile phones that now have a camera that's with you a lot of the time, and there's a lot of interest around those cameras as a data collection mechanism.