Arash Ferdowsi Quotes

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

If the government can manage to collect and release personal information in a secure and useful way, so can private companies, which will empower consumers to become better shoppers.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

We all have legitimate concerns over the way our personal data is used and stored and it is right that there are protections to stop the theft and manipulation of our private information.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.