Gus Van Sant Quotes

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

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

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

I don't know how to back up.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

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

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

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

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

No one has any faith in the tape anymore - everyone just relies on computers and considers the hardrive to be the safest option, and I don't. I think an analog tape is something you can hold.

Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative.

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.

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

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.

After a yearlong investigation, there is no evidence that anyone hacked the server I was using, and there is no evidence that anyone can point to, at all ... that any classified material ended up in the wrong hands.

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?