Quotes About Transparency

practically every political reformer in the country—and, for that matter, practically every schoolchild—will tell you that machines are rotten, that careerists are slimy, and that what politics needs is more popular participation, more attention to issues, more transparency, more disinterest, more fresh faces.

if I did something like that, I'd have to tell them. I don't want to have to show up and say, 'Yeah, I've had a fight with my wife and slept at the Holiday Inn.

Be yourself. Always be yourself. If people can't penetrate unimportant surface issues, they're never going to appreciate your fundamental qualities anyway.

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

La sua persona è così trasparente che la si può confondere con la Presenza.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

Prayer is the experience of recentering ourselves in that inner light, then becoming a transparency for its radiance.

The vital detail about the design is captured in the code. A well-written implementation should be transparent, revealing the model underlying it.

Composite Pattern takes the Single Responsibility design principle and trades it for transparency.

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.

auditable," is so essential. We must ensure that the data is credible to employees.

Transparency is therefore more than an esthetic triumph; it is a victory that will be reflected in lower costs throughout the software's life cycle. 6.2.2

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Sharing, transparency, and openness are all now fast-moving trends in medicine that have been potentiated by the digital infrastructure.

This brings home the saying and mantra for the future—"Nothing about me without me"—which should and will undeniably apply to individuals when they assume the role of IAPs.38

With all the drive to cost transparency, there is not only little emphasis to make quality-of-care data available, but also it is extremely hard to come by. That's why the call of Guest and Quincy from Consumer Reports that "consumers should have better information about hospital and physician performance than they can glean from user reviews on Yelp, Zagat's, Angie's List, or other such sources" is such a tall order.

Wouldn't it be amazing to have anonymous medical records available to all research doctors? Making our medical records open for sharing will save 100,000 lives a year.

If I didn't tell someone everything, maybe I didn't exist.

No more twist!

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.