And yet Rebecca felt that it was hard to tell whether the secret algorithms of Big Data did not so much reveal you to yourself as they tried to dictate to you what you were to be. To accept that the machines knew you better than you knew yourself involved a kind of silent assent: you liked the things Big Data told you were likely to like, and you loved the people it said you were likely to love. To believe entirely in the data entailed a slight diminishment of the self, small but crucial and, perhaps, irreversible.

— Dexter Palmer

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the problems of the world has steadily improved. If there is a battle today somewhere on the planet, we experience it almost as if we were there. During World War II, tens of thousands of people might perish in a battle, and if the public could see it at all it was in a grainy newsreel in a movie theater weeks later. During World War I am small elite could read about the progress of the conflict in the newspaper (without pictures). During the nineteenth century there was almost no access to news in a timely fashion for anyone.

— Ray Kurzweil

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

— Edward Snowden

By the 1980s and 1990s, Moore's Law had emerged as the underlying assumption that governed almost everything in the Valley, from technology to business, education, and even culture. The "law" said the number of transistors would double every couple of years. It dictated that nothing stays the same for more than a moment; no technology is safe from its successor; costs fall and computing power increases not at a constant rate but exponentially: If you're not running on what became known as" Internet time," you're falling behind.

— John Markoff

Email is the scourge of our age,' said Silvia. 'Email and cancer.

— Olivia Sudjic

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

— Julien Torma

Information is key, being informed is success.

— Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere. Right information matters the most. This applies to your work place too.

— Abhishek Ratna

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.

— Ronald Reagan

Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.

— R.F. Georgy