information awareness Quotes

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

I have two questions about Arnold Schwarzenegger. What does he know, and when will he know it?

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

People need to know what's going on. People need to wake up.

Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, 'Wow, these networks have a lot of information.'

My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

Obviously I have a bit of an awareness because I go to the internet like everybody else but I don't get too involved in the details of those conversations just because it can hurt you if you stumble on something that's not nice.

One of the things that always drives any practitioner of journalism crazy is you'll run it people who say why doesn't the media cover this or that? Well of course the media covered it. Why didn't you read about it? And, you know, it's, you know, there you are, it's not the journalist's job to knock down your door, you know, punch the URL into your computer and force you to stop watching the Kardashians and to read, you know, a report on integrity in government instead, it's your job.