Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
"You can't get very far in this world without your dossier being there first." -- Arthur Miller | |
"Flight Reservation systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere." -- Arthur Miller | |
"What people have been reduced to are mere 3-D representations of their own data." -- Arthur Miller | |
"The Avis WIZARD decides if you get to drive a car. Your head won't touch the pillow of a Sheraton unless their computer says it's okay." -- Arthur Miller | |
"They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts." -- Arthur Miller | |
"Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed." -- Arthur Miller | |
"People should have access to the data which you have about them. There should be a process for them to challenge any inaccuracies." -- Arthur Miller | |
If you analyse anything, you destroy it. -- Arthur Miller | |
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. -- Arthur Miller |