Quotes About Information

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

When the FOIA law was first being discussed, every federal agency opposed it.

I've got a really amazing ability to forget and disregard information that comes in my brain.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and they got broken down into my body, and I sweated it out. It's not because I want to talk about 'issues.' For me, a novel is a way of seeing the world.

I don't really like encouraging people to go on the Internet too much, we're constantly distracted with the Internet and computers.

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to performance areas also need to be tracked. Information on performance has to be made available to those people who can best use it - those doing the work.

I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

It's amazing what you can find out if you just call an expert, you know?

Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

Experts are full of answers, often without questions.

I think sometimes you need a little more explanation than the characters that you're allowed on Twitter.

The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.

I think it is right that government should have passed legislation that requires that relationships and sex education is taught in schools, but at the same time, I also agree that it is right that parents should be able to choose the moment at which their children become exposed to that information.

I have nothing to do with Facebook or the Internet - I don't know how to use half of it; I think I'm better off.

I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

Facebook is who you used to know; Twitter is who you want to know and things you want to know more about.

Without facts you can't have truth.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.