Pete Townshend Quotes

The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

Information is alienated experience.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

What's so interesting about the internet - I keep saying this - is the web has gotten worse over the last five years as opposed to better.

In the modern world, the interests of a particular community can no longer be considered to lie within the confines of its own boundaries.

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

Being human in the digital world is about building a digital world for humans.

Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

Data is great, but strategy is better