Information Handling Quotes

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

Simply being secretary of state didn't allow Clinton to authorize herself to deviate from the requirements of retaining and transmitting classified documents, materials and information.

I was in the CIA for nine years. I am intimately familiar with the information classification system. I used it every day on the job. Like every other one of my colleagues at the agency, I approached the handling of classified information with immense care because I understand the ramifications.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

Intent to harm America is not required to make the mishandling of information criminal - it simply requires that the actor was grossly negligent.

And knowledge management is a means, not an end.

I'm not a library.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

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.

Unlike Hillary Clinton, who has risked so many lives with her careless handling of sensitive information, my administration will not telegraph exactly military plans and what they are.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

I find it a lot more concerning to me that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless in the handling of national security information, not just one or two, but thousands and thousands of pieces of national security information.

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not.

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.

Only a very small number of the e-mails containing classified information bore markings indicating the presence of classified information. But even if information is not marked 'classified' in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.