Quotes About Information

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

We value integrity of information, we value processes, cyber- security. These are things important to the government.

One of the challenges of my job is relaying the magnitude of information coming through in a reading, and when I'm overwhelmed in processing a feeling because of how intense it is, my brain resorts to calling it 'immense' for some reason.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

When girls have the ability to navigate, evaluate, and create information using digital technology, they are better equipped to be productive members of the community and economic participants.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

I'm a very physical actor; everything I do is pretty much body-oriented. I sometimes am able to deliver information just with a look; my face does two or three different things, and it says it all.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

In the world according to Apple, content is just a bunch of digital bits, easily copied, nothing special.

Technologists and futurists call the mashup of digital info and physical space 'blended reality.'

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

Given that everyone's got a voice, it's the age of the democratisation of information through digital technology. That means women can rise up, and people of colour can rise up, and these stories are much more present to us. And that's great.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.

When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.