#inform

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. ↗

— Kate Adie

#democracy #good #information #never #secrecy

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

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

Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information. ↗

— Peter Bart

#example #information #most #much #star

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age. ↗

— Chris Bell

#age #bells #bells and whistles #day #few

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#books #date #enduring #form #humanity

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#experience #foundation #history #informed #lasting