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America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information. -- Tom Clancy
The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network. -- Kevin Mitnick
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information. -- Alberto Gonzales
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. -- Marilyn Johnson
There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it. -- Clifford Stoll
We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other. -- Clay Shirky
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Sid Meier
Information is the most valuable commodity in the world today and this business is about giving people access to information that is relevant to their lives. -- James Murdoch
The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition. -- Herbert Simon
We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs. -- Atifete Jahjaga
Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world. -- Hal Varian
Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young. -- Andrew Nikiforuk
New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens develop the abilities to gain access to information of all kinds and the skills to put such information to effective use. -- Harry Boyte
But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information. -- Neil Gaiman
I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent. -- Hillary Clinton
The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity. -- Andrew Lo
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life. -- Ed Asner
I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well. -- Mackenzie Davis
Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine. -- Victor C. Ferkiss
Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable. -- Hasan M. Elahi
Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities. -- Maynard Webb
The user in China wants the same thing that any Internet user wants - privacy in conversations, maximum access to information, and the ability to speak their minds online. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog. -- George A. Romero
I dream of a Digital India where access to Information knows no barriers. -- Narendra Modi
Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. -- Chris Powell
Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden. -- Alberto Gonzales
When access to information was limited, we needed to load student sup with facts. Now, when we have no scarcity of facts or the access to them, we need to load them up with understanding. -- Seth Godin
The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech. -- Pete Wilson
I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringing people together, leveling the playing field, and archiving our history. -- Josie Brown
We want the people, in their private lives, to be completely free, and in today's world, having access to information and the right of free dialogue and the right to think freely is the right of all peoples, including the people of Iran. -- Hassan Rouhani
As a function of the easy access to information provided by the Internet, and the ease with which it can be shared thanks to social media, consumers are now better informed as to the behavior of brands and the multiple global crises we face. -- Simon Mainwaring
In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything. -- Alan Huffman
The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard. -- Bill Gates
History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate. -- Vint Cerf
The rise of a ubiquitous Internet, along with 24-hour news channels has, in some sense, had the opposite effect from what many might have hoped such free and open access to information would have had. It has instead provided free and open access, without the traditional media filters, to a barrage of disinformation. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information. -- Ivan Krastev
Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access. -- David Filo
On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access. -- Ethan Zuckerman
The viewpoint of the government is that the people must have full access to all information worldwide. -- Hassan Rouhani
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning. -- Sugata Mitra
When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to. -- Daniella Alonso
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. -- Elizabeth Holmes
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. -- Vinton Cerf
There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees. -- Jon Porter
I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information. -- Ty Pennington
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence. -- Vernor Vinge
Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream. -- Michael K. Powell
You can always trust information given you by people who are crazy; they have an access to truth not available through regular channels. -- Sheila Ballantyne
The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be. -- Russell Brand
As we mature through the years, we access more deeply information we had only abstractly understood before. -- Marianne Williamson
We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion. -- David Suzuki
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. -- Neil Gaiman
You have to understand not just what your customers need, but how and where they prefer to access information. -- Jay Baer
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. -- Vinton Cerf
When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security. -- Stedman Graham
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan
In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken. -- Dan Payne
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet. -- Omar Bongo
Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society. -- Koichiro Matsuura
I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything. -- Ted Gup
What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right. -- Elizabeth Holmes
We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information. -- Howard Schultz
Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that. -- Mark Krikorian
Many company policies restrict use of E-mail, limit access to offensive Web sites and prohibit disclosure of confidential information. Few policies, if any, directly address personal Web pages. -- Bill Dedman
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life. -- Kofi Annan
We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do. -- Lizz Winstead
I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that I deal with facts, that I deal with sufficient information. Which means having access to all information. -- Rex W. Tillerson
Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access. -- George Will
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago. -- Edwidge Danticat

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