Quotes About Metadata

#1. Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

Bruce Schneier

#2. We kill people based on metadata.

Bruce Schneier

#3. ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.

Marco Rubio

#4. To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.

David Weinberger

#5. Those very same metadata are contained in millions of photographs posted to sale and auction sites such as Craigslist and eBay. For example, a photograph of a diamond ring or an iPad posted on Craigslist might have embedded with it the precise location of your home where the photograph was taken.

Marc Goodman

#6. What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.

Ted Cruz

#7. As former NSA general counsel Stewart Baker said, "Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody's life. If you have enough metadata you don't really need content.

Bruce Schneier

#8. ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

Jack Dangermond

#9. I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.

John McAfee

#10. General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

Rand Paul

#11. If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

David Weinberger

#12. Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

Chris Hardwick

#13. When we miss with all the metadata collection we've had, the San Bernardino couple and the Tsarnaev brothers, what that suggests to me is that we are using the wrong algorithms to search through all this data.

Carly Fiorina

#14. You remind me people are more than the sum of the metadata one can dig up

Emma Holly

#15. Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.

Rand Paul

#16. The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

David Viscott

#17. We all have a reason for living I am blessed mine has two eyes a heartbeat and calls me mum.

Nikki Rowe

#18. Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#19. I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

John Lithgow

#20. We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.

C.S. Lewis

#21. But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

Jupiter Hammon

#22. One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Sebastian Horsley

#23. Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

Kina Grannis

#24. A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life

Emile M. Cioran

#25. I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

Ada Limon

#26. Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

Benjamin Franklin

#27. I am not the potter, not the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master's skill?

Stephen King

#28. There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Glen Cook

#29. Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.

Ira Sachs

#30. The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.

Julie Mehretu