Information Delay Quotes

Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

No one tells actors anything; we're always the last people to find out.

But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

But it is almost impossible to communicate with them [one's spies in the enemy camp] and receive the information they possess ... Even when the general receives from his spies information of movements, he still knows nothing of those which may since have taken place, nor of what the enemy is going finally to attempt.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

We in the Defense Department want to know what we are talking about when we provide information so it will take some time longer for us to get all the information.

It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.