Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Data is the new oil. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.