Information Distribution Quotes

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

With over 1 billion users and counting worldwide, the Internet has quickly become a critical place for individuals, business communities and governments to share and distribute information.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

Every time I come across learning items of interest, I'll send distribution voice mail to the appropriate group in the organization.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

RSS, as a format and an idea, grew directly out of an internet culture that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet.

For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

With the internet we are facing more or less a very similar story. It does offer virtually limitless access to entertainment and for many people living in extremely depressing conditions in authoritarian states, it does provide a vehicle for getting by. For many oppositional movements, the internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually made their struggle more difficult in the long run.

Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.