Ken Marino Quotes

We in the Defense Department want to know what we are talking about when we provide information so it will take some time longer for us to get all the information.

I'm not a library.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.

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.

… 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Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.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 cannot guarantee that if we have good intelligence, good policy will necessarily follow. But we can guarantee that if we have poor intelligence, poor policy will necessarily follow.

I don't just throw out microwave records.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

There are tens of thousands of bank branches and 4,000 currency chests. We need to be careful and try that this is a number which is not a mere estimate but a verified number both physically and in the accounting sense.

Who creates a fake page? If I want to respond to a person on social media, it has to come from my page with the verified check on it.

I have been a strong proponent of helping people understand that during the last decade or so, as it lies at the very bottom of how we know anything. Let me give a couple examples to get that point across.

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

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.

I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.

The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

I was trained mainly as a short story writer and that's how I started writing, but I've also become very interested in non-fiction, just because I got a couple of magazine jobs when I was really poor and needed the money and it turned out that non-fiction was much more interesting than I thought it was.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?