Quotes About Information

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.

The only security of all is in a free press.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.

The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.

We think we have got freedom of the press. When one millionaire has ten newspapers and ten million people have no newspapers - that is not freedom of the press.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Science is organized knowledge.