#inform

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

#autobiographical #course #directly #i #i think

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#blood #developments #dust #history #information

If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#answer #bloggers #body #busy #discourse

Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#difficulty #endemic #events #foreign #given

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#connection #environment #i #i came #information

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#enormous #fits #fulfilled #information #just

True information does good. ↗

— Julian Assange

#good #information #true

We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks. ↗

— Julian Assange

#against #attacks #databases #defend #format

Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform. ↗

— Julian Assange

#amount #flow #information #just #leading

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good. ↗

— Julian Assange

#concealing #doing #economic #effort #gets