Quotes About Information

In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

Kids are growing up with a bombardment of information through technology.

I love documentaries and TED talks.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

I don't like the Sunday newspapers - I read them because I have to. 'Sunday Times,' 'Telegraph,' 'Independent' on Sunday - I find them heavy and too much! I prefer 'The Economist.'

I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful.

Garbage can provide important details for hackers: names, telephone numbers, a company's internal jargon.

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

To be perfectly honest, I follow football the way I follow television. I read about it.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Most of us will agree that my former medium, television news, has been reduced to tawdry entertainment.

I don't watch television news and, so, whatever I know is from online snippets released by various channels.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

Edward Snowden, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, professes to have had access to whatever he wanted to know about anyone's anything. If he's telling the truth, why does he have such permeability without any government oversight? Is that OK with you?

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.

So the best project management policies are those that promote open flow of information up and down the project hierarchy.

Having learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary source for knowing what really happened. I think newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events themselves.