Quotes About Information

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.

Our bureaucracy had excelled at compartmentalizing intelligence - we had a 'need to know' system - but by 2004, it was impossible to foresee what elements of our organization would and would not need to know a given piece of information.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Every year, more and more friends, apps, media or news stories want our attention. We need a better way to organize all the kinds of choices we have.

A free and open Internet is crucial for innovation and the exchange of information and ideas. It allows grassroots communities to organize and mobilize against injustice across our nation and the globe. It's good for business, consumers, and our entire economy.

I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing.

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

I know the hustle that is in Louisiana. Knowing where you are from, really where you're from, helps you to help the community. That's every city, but New Orleans is just different. We have big hearts, but it's just a matter of us having the information, having the people to push you along like I had.

All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

The news now continues all night, whether it's politicians and the president using social media, or it might be a major news outlet dropping giant stories at 9, 10 o'clock at night.

If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important.

This media era is amazing. Twitter, Facebook, ESPN, news outlets everywhere.

GLAAD has so much information and outlets about LGBTQ people and some of the issues we face and who we are.

I do think people would be surprised to know that journalists from various news outlets are in this together in many ways in terms of these long hours and in terms of really sharing a desire to get information to the American people.

There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

Law and politics are often overly complicated because there are people that don't want the rest of us to know what's going on.

As soon as I wake up, I read my email to see what news developed overnight.

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.