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"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."
"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."
"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."
"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."
"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."
"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"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."
"You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough on the objectives."
"Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people."
"It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that."
"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
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