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Search is an unsolved problem.

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

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.