Norbert Wiener Quotes

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

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

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.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

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.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

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

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

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.

There are security risks not only from information falling into the wrong hands, but also from information failing to find its way into the right hands. The government’s current approach to protecting classified information does not recognize this risk from failing to share

It is a fiction to imagine that the haphazard paper chits of old are more private than the modern digital alternative. Paper records have always presented a security risk.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.

That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world.

Netflix is very protective with their information .

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.

The archiving industry, much like the funeral industry and the wedding industry, these industries can be very exploitative.