Information Trust Quotes

I'm not worried by politics: I'm worried about the media.

The accuracy of Wikipedia can be dodgy in some places, but in maths, it's really quite good.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read.

The problem is that there is no reliable source of information left, no way to accumulate trusted accounts of the plusses and minuses of any given political choice.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

As we have learned to our cost in recent years, much “secret information” is simply wrong, while information that is public … is too often discounted.

I am someone that follows the news and reads newspapers yet what do you believe and what don't you.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

Books can be misleading...

I don't believe Wikipedia about anything. I don't go there for anything but keywords.

I don't know if I trust entertainment to teach anyone anything.

'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.

With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because it's filtered through this crazy yenta gossip line. It's impossible to know anything.

Nobody is infallible, but it is important to have trusted guides when it comes to information.

Readers are increasingly reliant on digital sources for information - and they are increasingly reliant on these sources to be accurate.

I can't tell you how many times I've been with very smart, knowledgeable Homeland Security experts who are essentially tasked with saving your life who do not trust you with information. They just don't. They kind of dismiss the media and the public in one fell swoop.