Dave Barry Quotes

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

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

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

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

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

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

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

One can doubt the sincerity of the technology community’s outrage over the NSA’s surveillance practices—doubt, for example, that the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, whose company reportedly stores petabytes’ worth of data about its billion-plus active monthly users, was shocked at the thought of mass data collection.

Data is valuable, so let's be mindful of how we're sharing it.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

I don't know how to back up.

Some of the uses being implemented for blockchain could actually work better with a database.

In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

I have seen a man charged with revolutionizing incredibly complex government information technology systems who did not know how to use a thumb drive.