At this moment a coherent generally accepted European telecommunication – or information – policy does not exist! | keynote by jansen van rosendaal, director CEC, Dir. Gen, XIII-B, 12. may 1983

The US Pentagon recently declared "war" on paper: apart from the normal paper problems of
all unwieldy bureaucracies, the Pentagon now has to cope with the huge amounts of documentation which go with complex high-tech weapons systems. For example, a typical US Navy cruiser puts to sea with no less than 26 tonnes of manuals for its weapons systems - enough to affect the performance of the vessel! | megatrends or megamistakes? whatever happened to the information society? by tom forester

"...That we are all sitting here today with one of the biggest technologies that we've invented, and were using it to solve trivialities. We use it to solve advertising problems, hypothetical data scientist pulling down information about a childrens breakfast cereal, measuring and constructing data to build models to determine the exact color of the packaging, the position on the shelf, and how much money we should charge for it. (sean gurley (01:58) | structure:data conference 2013

"Since you can't connect dots you don't have, it drives us into a mode of, we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever." (hunt) | cia chews everything