Benjamin Wittes Quotes
Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom our people thus end up collecting information as a collateral matter.
Quotes to Explore
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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Perhaps there is no greater evidence that the teachers' union has swung too far out of the mainstream that they both have been a target of near-constant criticism from Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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The NSA is forbidden to 'target' American citizens, green-card holders or companies for surveillance without an individual warrant from a judge.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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Does the difficulty in ensuring each and every employee of such companies is not tied to insurgent groups and not potentially providing useful targeting information to these groups argue against continuing to employ such firms unless there is no alternative?
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
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What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.
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A record deal is my dream.
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Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom our people thus end up collecting information as a collateral matter.
