A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

Filtering can be a very good thing when it comes to human relationships and familial harmony. Yeah, filtering is often an absolute necessity.

— Lynn Coady

Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.

— Lionel Barber

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

— Donald Luskin

One of the things we did at PayPal was collaborative filtering and machine learning: looking at patterns of human behavior. We used it there…

— Max Levchin

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to…

— David Weinberger

Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.

— Lance Ito

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your…

— Eli Pariser

Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.

— Anonymous

There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the…

— Win Butler

“Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to…

— Eli Pariser

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

— Peter Diamandis

The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.

— Ethan Zuckerman

“In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge. Filter first for substance. Filter second for…

— Marc Stiegler

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I…

— Laura Mvula

I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I…

— Anonymous