Quotes About Information

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Our interaction as patients with the NHS should be on the basis that there's a presumption that all information is shared with us.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

Data can set you free.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

I want the world's data accessible.

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.

We share no data with the government anywhere in the world.

I eventually think its going to be the consumer who controls his own data.

Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.