Angus Deaton Quotes

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

We will continue to work with agencies across the government to unleash the power of open data and to make government data more accessible and usable for entrepreneurs, companies, researchers, and citizens everywhere - innovators who can leverage these resources to benefit Americans in a rapidly growing array of exciting and powerful ways.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

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

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs?

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.

I want the world's data accessible.

It is very important, to have a robust digital economy, that the citizens regain the trust in how their data are being processed and who can access them.

Here is a guiding principle: If a business collects data on consumers electronically, it should provide them with a version of that data that is easy to download and export to another Web site.

High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.

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

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work.

We are Americans, We have the right to participate and debate any administration.

The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing business models of efficiency and accountability, poses a dire threat not only to faculty and students who carry the mantle of university self-governance, but also to democracy itself.

I think that the voters should choose the elected officials, not the elected officials choose the voters.

In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.

At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate.

No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.