Quotes About Information

I could tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.

The guy said, "We don't know if the somebody is a Chinaman. That information would have helped, I guess.

When we found it you said the number would be either the client, or a source of independent corroboration, or a source of further information.

sentences. A succinct and everyday exchange of information.

sent Summer away to do three things: first, list all female personnel at Fort Bird with access to their own Humvees, and second, list any of them who might have met Kramer at Fort Irwin in California, and third, contact the Jefferson Hotel in D.C. and get Vassell and Coomer's exact check-in and checkout times, plus details on all their incoming and outgoing phone calls.

Because that's what we're dealing with here. Layers upon layers upon layers, like the layers of an onion, in the Deep Web itself, and inside all of its separate sites.

An equal-opportunity phenomenon, the World Wide Web doesn't discriminate between sober-minded scholars and delusional crackpots, leaving visitors without a reliable filter to determine what's trustworthy and what's not.

As our lives have been flooded with novelty and change, they have become more hectic than ever before, at both home and work. We are barraged by a constant stream of information, and thanks to all of our screens and devices, we are in ceaseless contact with dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of other people, rarely (if ever) enjoying any complete downtime.

Evolution has provided us with an unconscious mind because our unconscious is what allows us to survive in a world requiring such massive information intake and processing.

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Dreams are where we will meet again. In love, in yearning, in fear. Dreams, like countries, are ideas: all reality gestates first inside a dream. Dreams are information for those who read their tea leaves come morning. They are tiny little maps of souls. Of every secret, we push aside while we are awake.....Dreams know you better than you know yourself.

What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information? So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit.

Sometimes the catalyst can be a piece of information that a character receives. Such a catalyst orients the audience to the subject of the story through dialogue

Until the catalyst kicks off the story, the only information the audience has is where and when the film takes place. But once an event happens, the story suddenly has focus and direction

If a doctor isn't 'up' on something, he's 'down' on it.

It is important to approach the Word with humility. There is danger when we go to the Word to gather information to establish our opinions or beliefs. We then read what we believe, instead of believe what we read.

Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world's first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?