Quotes About Information

The computing world is very good at things that we are not. It is very good at memory.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

I think it's radical to censor information because the government asks you to. That's radical.

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

In government and out, there are vast realms of the bureaucracy dedicated to seeking more information, in perpetuity if need be, in order to avoid taking action.