Quotes About Information

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.

I think social networks are really working for the drivers, because we're able to talk directly to fans and they get first-hand information. And I think it's great for the partners as well and the businesses that are involved in Formula One.

Renewables is part of social responsibility, but the information revolution is the only main thing I am interested in.

We really need to get control over Social Security numbers. My children's generation, they're past it. But their children should be able to have a number that is secure.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

I think the power of messaging is saying something in as few words as possible, because I think we all essentially have ADD. It's not a clinically diagnosed state anymore; it's a socially imposed state.

Freedom of the press underpins free societies around the world.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the essential role a newspaper can play in its community.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.

If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.

Everything we're doing online is being not just monitored, but that information is being packaged up and sold and resold to manipulate us.

It's interesting - what are you willing to give up in terms of your privacy for access to other people? For access to things you think you desperately need. Ultimately, it's that old saying, isn't it? If the service is free, then the product is you. The thing being sold is you. There's a product for sale in you and your data.

There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they've been brought up in the computer and information age.

If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit.

My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Providing patients and consumers with solid information on the cost and quality of their healthcare options can literally make the difference between life or death; and play a decisive role in whether a family or employer can afford healthcare.

Local news taught me to take each moment as one of extreme importance - don't waste people's time. Give them solid information in a compelling fashion so they will remember it and use it in their lives.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.