Quotes About Transparency

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

Even on the spiritual path, we have things we'll tend to cover up or be in denial about.

I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the fact that you don't know what you're doing. And that simply saying 'I don't know what I'm doing' is a massive relief.

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Everyone who knows me or has heard rumors or stories or whatever knows that I have a tendency to lose it every now and then. I've never been shy about it either.

There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and then when you come to power, the bad side comes out.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

I am a very honest, open person and I think there is a tendency in celebrity autobiographies to gloss over certain things which have happened.

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

The stuff we have been told off record tends to be the stuff that is true and the stuff we are told on record on camera tends to be the stuff that is not so true.

If there has been any match-fixing then we need to make sure that it's erased from our sport because it's a crime in sports. We have no place for it in any sport let alone tennis.

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

I'm terrible at keeping secrets.

The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

The biggest thing is to overcommunicate your vision. It's so important to have real clarity as to what is inside your head, and sometimes that's really terrifying for people.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.

Snowden's revelations shocked the world and made it very clear why we need to have some way to look over those who look over us. With increasing terrorist attacks, security is critical, but not without any accountability or oversight.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.