Personal Information Quotes

• We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

  Gary Kovacs

  Leaving, Digital, Woods

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• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  William Gibson

  Moving, Technology, Leaving

  William Gibson (2014). “Burning Chrome”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Every American should have absolute control over his or her personal information

  George W. Bush

  Should Have, Democracy, Information

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• This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Mistake, Information, Bigs

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• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
  Ten thousand reflections
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  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Peaceful

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• Utility representatives will not show up at your door unannounced and will not ask for banking information in unsolicited phone calls. If you get a request for personal information that leaves you skeptical, contact my office and we can help determine if the call was legitimate.

  Mike Beebe

  Phones, Doors, Office

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• There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Giving, Information

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• The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  World Government, Historical, Would Be

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• I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

  Tim Cook

  Successful, Thinking, Apples

  "Apple boss delivers strongest attack yet on Facebook and Google over privacy" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.

  Barry Diller

  Real, Taken, May

  CEO Forum: Media mogul Diller on Tweeter, Ticketmaster, etc.,

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• The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.

  Zadie Smith

  Caring, Artist, Choices

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• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Bob Ney

  Risk, Information, Lax

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• Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

  Al Franken

  Home, Numbers, Phones

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• Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Data, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We didn't know what was coming next. And, you know, this is not just about computers; this is harassment of individuals, it's harassment of our candidates, harassment of our donors. We had stolen information, personal information. People were personally harassed.

  Donna Brazile

  People, Information, Next

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We see it in attempts on Capitol Hill to impose gag rules on rules on doctors on what they can say to their patients about family planning. And we certainly see it now with an effort by the government to tap our phones; invade our medical records, credit information, library records and the most sensitive personal information in the name of national security.

  Dick Durbin

  Names, Doctors, Phones

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• And it soon became obvious to me that I had to process and keep my relationship with my ex-wife separate from that of my children. They didn't need or want too much personal information about our relationship. Change is good, and ultimately, creating a new path at this point in my life is energizing, creative, and rejuvenating.

  Tim Matheson

  Children, Creating, Wife

  "Tim Matheson: On the Whole Live Challenge and never wallowing in disappointment". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

  John Stossel

  Party, Believe, Ideas

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like humid air. "Better than a bath in spaghetti any day." He said darkly, "If you share that little bit of personal information with anyone, I may have to kill you." "Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside the dryer with the clothes," Clary said. "The difference is, she didn't let me." "Probably because going around and around inside a dryer can be fatal," Jace pointed out, "whereas pasta is rarely fatal. Unless Isabelle makes it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Nice, Differences

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I didn't actually see any, so I never got the chance.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Female, Monkeys

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, World Government, Liberty

  "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.

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• It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it

  Holly Hunter

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

  Diana Ross

  Want, Information, Revealing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

  Edward Sapir

  Age, Events, Legends

  Edward Sapir, David Goodman Mandelbaum (1985). “Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality”, p.395, Univ of California Press

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• We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

  Marc Rotenberg

  Promise, Information, Unfair

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