John Maynard Smith Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

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

With big data comes big responsibilities.

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

Google doesn't really forget.

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

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.

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

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

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

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.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

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

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.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

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

Our view is that sensitive, contractual, market-moving, private data should be kept private.

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

The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

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