Quotes About Verification

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Always be suspicious of the news you want to hear. —Francis Everitt, physicist

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All of us technology companies need to create some tools that help diminish the volume of fake news. We must try to squeeze this without stepping on freedom of speech and of the press, but we must also help the reader.

Here's the facts: We've got to have I.D. to go vote, you have to show an I.D. to buy alcohol, you have got to show an I.D. need to buy tobacco, and you have to show and have a driver's license to drive.

Requirements for an ID are not voter suppression - they are just commonsense steps to ensure people don't vote if they are ineligible, don't vote using false identities and don't vote more than once.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

The Fair Elections Act in its final form will require every single voter to produce ID showing who they are before they vote. Away from the noise in political Ottawa, everyone understands that this is common sense.

When I was in the state legislature, we asked for different examples of voter fraud, and the Republicans could never produce any sort of in-person voter fraud examples.

Mass mailing ballots to voters depends on voter registration rolls that are notoriously error-ridden.

Misquoting drives me bananas.

I look really young. I always get carded at bars. No one believes that I'm over 18, let alone over 21.

When did fact checking and journalism go their separate ways?

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI or orthopedic consult.

Don't read everything on the internet as true, as it might not be.

I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.

When bills come in, Medicare get so many bills every day, it pays most of them and then goes back later to figure out if they were fraudulent, if it ever goes back at all.

Everything that people say is testable.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

When a deceiving man tells you to climb a tree, tell him to climb it first. If he finds a comfortable spot you can follow him.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.

With Bitcoin, every transaction is publicly verified, so many risks are eliminated, including chargeback fraud or 'friendly fraud.' This is when a customer purchases something online with a credit card; waits to receive the goods or service, then requests a chargeback refund. The bank then forcibly takes the funds out of the merchant's account.