Linus Torvalds Quotes

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

Apple knows a lot of data. Facebook knows a lot of data. Amazon knows a lot of data. Microsoft used to, and still does with some people, but in the newer world, Microsoft knows less and less about me. Xbox still knows a lot about people who play games. But those are the big five, I guess.

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

Remember, the Cloud is just someone else's server.

Data is fungible. You can make as many copies of it as you want.

We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data.