Quotes About Information

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

Sure the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal.

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest critic of the hypesters, because it's dangerous when fields get overhyped.

This is now the way our culture prioritises. Look up 'Steppenwolf,' and you'll get the band before the novel. Look up Jesus Christ, and you'll get the musical. Look up Princess Link-a-din and you'll get LinkedIn, the business-oriented social network.

I don't have any thoughts on blogs, because I don't read them. I don't read them not out of any principle, but because there are only 24 hours in a day, and I like to read books.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

I read the papers like everybody else, so I don't complain about what they print.

I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism.

Given how dangerous it is for someone to consume something they are allergic to, you would think that companies would just make sure they print labels which have the allergy information on.

Print and television journalism are very different, and it's not like one is better than the other.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

We are not going to do ourselves any favors by buying into what's printed in newspapers.

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

Privacy is a thing of the past.

I don't actually believe there's any such thing as privacy.

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

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential, we all know that in an age of cyber attacks and computer hacking that ensuring people's privacy can be difficult.

We don't want privacy so much as privacy settings.