Information Quotes
What we know, how we get it, and who controls it.
These information quotes span a wartime account of physicists comparing notes across borders, a case for treating the internet as more than just open access to ideas, and technical descriptions of how scientists actually gather data, from nuclear radiation measurements to brain tissue analysis. See Internet for the modern angle on this theme.
The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.
A leader who listens is one who is malleable and willing to refine her views and actions as she learns new information or hears a better idea.
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a 'big data' company, a beyond-vehicles opportunity that is as promising as it is murky.
Important Quotes
6I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.
Internet Quotes
1As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
