Information Quotes

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and su...

The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets...

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information mo...

a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a weddi...

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the pr...

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama....

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of ...

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get t...

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you sta...

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out k...

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything...

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever le...

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The in...

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose sel...

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and ...

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It di...

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence...

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w...

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpre...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...

It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

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...