Open Data Quotes

#1. Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

Michael Nielsen

#2. I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.

Stewart Butterfield

#3. I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.

Ram Shriram

#4. In this universe of ours, with its wealth of errors and legends, historical data and false information, one absolute truth is the fact that Superman is Clark Kent. All the rest is always open to debate.

Umberto Eco

#5. What we did is important because we proved that virtually all of the wireless networks used by companies and hospitals are completely open and offer no protection for the data on them.

Avi Rubin

#6. See a storm. See a bad spanking. See your boy is ugly. Decide your boy is the pope. Blow the pope away with an imaginary gun. Fellate your own fingers afterward.

Amanda Boyden

#7. The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information,

Eric Schmidt

#8. Truth is relative, and there is always something missing in truth that prevents it from being perfect.

Nawal El Saadawi

#9. There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Kathleen Sebelius

#10. I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

George Edmund Street

#11. A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

Thomas C. Foster

#12. When life gives you lemons, make assless chaps.

Angie West

#13. But you weren't born," I tell him. "I wrote an algorithm based on the Linux operating kernel. You're an open-source search engine married to a dialog bot and a video compiler. The program scrubs the Web and archives a person's images and videos and data - everything you say, you've said before." For

Adam Johnson

#14. I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy

Bill Vaughan

#15. I'd like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.

Jeff Jarvis

#16. While an open network ensures the equal treatment of all data - something undoubtedly essential for a democratic networked society - it does not sweep away all the problems of the old-media model, failing to adequately address the commercialization and consolidation of the digital sphere.

Astra Taylor

#17. Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion.

Jerry A. Coyne

#18. For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#19. Laugh-and-the-whole-world-laughs-with-you type of thing.

Stephen King

#20. Figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Mabel Seeley