Louis Freeh Quotes

Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

The Pentagon suffers from too much Intelligence. They can't use what they get because there is too much collected. It would almost be better if they didn't have it because it's difficult to find out what's important.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Moving from general intelligence to specific targets is the most difficult part of the intelligence business.

The FBI didn’t have a mechanism to know what it knew.

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.

CIA will continue to pursue every lead; analyze the information we collect with critical, objective eyes; and brief reliable intelligence to protect U.S. forces deployed around the world.

I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.

We are drowning in information.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.