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I think it's important for the president of the United States to be aware of the intelligence information that we have.
John McCain
Intelligence
Important
Think
President
States
Intelligence Information
Information
United
Aware
United States
If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.
John Mellencamp
Future
You
People
Hide
Think
Our
Hiding
Future Generations
See
About
Darwin
Ten
Ten Commandments
Generations
Know
Hear
Commandments
Just
Want
Information
Things
Incorrect
It's not that the system is broken, but clearly there are ways to improve the system, strengthen it, to make sure that we can put together the various bits and pieces of information in a way that allows us to stop every single terrorist out there.
John O. Brennan
Broken
Together
Single
Every
Way
Ways
Bits
Bits And Pieces
System
Out
Various
Put
Clearly
Pieces
Make
Sure
Terrorist
Improve
Stop
Information
Us
Strengthen
I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.
John O. Brennan
Custody
People
Safety
Possible
Security
Administration
Vital
Unqualified
Individual
Take
Clear
Obtain
Terrorist
Very
American
Suspected
Whenever
Want
Information
Preference
American People
Capture
I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
John Oates
Music
Me
Song
Rarely
Record
Only
New
Friend
Very
Sends
Listen
Information
The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.
John Perry Barlow
Government
Legal
Made
First
Awareness
Changes
Project
Possible
Total
Databases
Mostly
First Place
Sort
Because
Access
Diabolical
Limits
Private
Were
Truly
Off
Commercial
Patriot
Patriot Act
Information
Place
Which
Act
Now
Consequence
I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.
John Perry Barlow
Age
Think
Other
Way
One-Way
More
Part
Industries
Industry
Ready
Go
Itself
Than
Any
Going
Movie
Movie Industry
Information
Information Age
Adapt
We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.
John Pistole
People
Law
Airport
Security
About
Layers
Put
Checkpoint
Beyond
Concern
Without
Passenger
List
Information
Much
Profiling
Watch
Number
Gather
Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.
John Poindexter
Government
Myself
Good
Needs
Goals
Achieve
Awareness
Total
Objectives
Could
Nobody
Goal
Information
Included
Ever
Believes
Set
Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.
John Pomfret
You
People
Complicated
Difficult
Tell
More
Open
Overseas
Get
Hearts
Information
Much
Working
Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.
John Ridley
People
Post
Somebody
Enough
Possible
About
Give
Mention
Investigation
He
Idea
Himself
Up
Hit
Expect
Get
Personal
Just
Personal Information
Information
Avatar
URL
Congressional
Tweet
Many
Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.
John Sayles
News
People
Every
Took
Those
Charges
See
Never
Had
Put
Answer
Still
Been
Domain
Lot
Information
Public
Bush
Public Domain
Should
Film
Every Night
Night
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
John Scarlett
Single
Military
Reliable
Know
Line
Source
Iraqi
Officer
Report
Reporting
Senior
Established
Information
Quoted
Position
When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.
John Sexton
Time
Best
You
Class
People
Job
First
Meet
Those
Ability
Potential
Exceptional
Never
Know
First Time
Provide
Information
Realize
Teach
Who
Things
The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms.
John Skipper
News
Sports
Everybody
Else
Percent
Consumed
Consumption
Highlights
Combined
Greater
Than
ESPN
Information
Platforms
I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.
John Sulston
Try
Free
Control
Believe
Software
Everyone
Our
Open
Make
Person
Information
Should
Products
Play
Basic
Compete
What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.
John Warnock
People
Try
Problems
Those
Direct
Various
Factor
Computers
How
Get
Information
Then
Act
Product
Use
Groups
Technologies
Applied
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.
John William McCormack
Work
You
Together
Closed
Stage
Secrecy
Corporation
Out
Lick
Find
Until
Stick
Get
Any
Anything
Information
Hard
Floor
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.
John Yoo
Future
Action
Our
Launching
Civilian
Only
Preventing
Attacks
Could
Casualties
Massive
Surprise
Goal
Pre-Emptive
Targets
Information
Which
Acquiring
Means
Use
Al
Al-Qaeda
Every time one person gets a piece of information, the likelihood of that information being exposed grows exponentially. It's no longer two people. It's two people squared.
Jon Cryer
Time
People
Every
Every Time
Longer
Piece
Likelihood
Person
Gets
Being
Information
Exponentially
Exposed
Grows
Two
Two People
We are drowning in information.
Jon Lovett
Drowning
Information
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
School
Employees
Complete
Criminal
Our
Ensure
Districts
Direct
Records
School Districts
Prospective
Access
Providing
Timely
Information
Help
For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information.
Jonathan Anderson
Me
Creative
Creative Process
Giant
Information
Process
I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.
Jonathan Kellerman
Good
Key
Practice
Key Thing
Touch
Data
Writer
Journals
Know
Knowing
Am
Still
Go
Very
Get
Officially
Bank
Where
Information
Keep
Medical
Thing
Need
The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.
Jonathan Klein
You
Facebook
People
Twitter
Follow
Sources
Trusted
Friends
Information
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
Jonathan Zittrain
Time
Met
Past
Other
Everything
Possible
Systems
Never
Develop
Instead
Soon
New
Reach
Beyond
Until
Ready
Material
Passed
Been
Conditions
Discovery
New Technologies
Stored
In The Past
Information
Place
Sensitive
Might
Using
Amount
Technologies
Preserve
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