Information Quotes

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wa...

...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, a...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later...

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information ab...

The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary vic...

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot...

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a ...

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the bus...

We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober...

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to ...

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn som...

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, mor...

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Cat...

A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact ...

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can ma...

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it ...

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we s...

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any de...

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look o...

The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a d...

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelli...

I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second ...

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal re...

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since lo...

One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seem...

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate inform...

We all would like to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the prob...

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information,...

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that ...

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that...

people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around...

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what...

While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can po...

The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined ...

Information is information, not matter or energy.

In accordance with the prevailing conceptions in the U.S., there is no infringement on democracy if ...

The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to conceal, and the...

...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a...

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

I understand Twitter has become popular among politicians. This technology allows them to stay in pe...

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths ar...

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a produ...

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmon...

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; gi...

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but ...

Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of sta...

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, ...

A primary reason that people believe that life is getting worse is because our information about the...

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, lik...

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

Today, information: pulverized, nonhierarchized, dealing with everything: nothing is protected from ...

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'l...

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best inc...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on ...

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Anything that just adds information you can't use is plain dangerous. Anyway, there's too much of ev...

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can reg...

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...

Information wants to be free.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify qui...

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and eff...

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is ...

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence ...

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with...

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you...

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in som...

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a s...

But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Interne...

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what...

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to informat...

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way ...

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and t...

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...