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Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.

— Jonathan Zittrain

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Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in the realm of seven to 10 days. That is an enormous challenge.

— John W. Thompson

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

— Antony Beevor

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

— John Maynard Smith

But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

— Allen Weinstein

Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.

— Lene Hau

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.

— Gurjeet Singh

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

— David Ogden Stiers

At some point, the time will have passed when individuals are capable of major discoveries.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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