Quotes About Information

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.

Untrue; but then, so is most information.

There was no one even to tell her which, of all the sepulchral slabs that paved the nave and transepts, was the one that was really beautiful, the one that had been most praised by Mr. Ruskin. Then the pernicious charm of Italy worked on her, and, instead of acquiring information, she began to be happy.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

The fantastic advances in the field of communication constitute a grave danger to the privacy of the individual.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Remember that a computer is for computing and routers for routing

To show actual avoidance of dissonant information, it is necessary to make comparisons against a neutral baseline.

simple conveying of information to rational people.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

Some didn't trust the truthiness ratings and inevitably claimed it was all just a way of suppressing inconvenient information. Lydia sometimes worries it's naive of her to set so much store by the TRs, and yeah they probably are manipulating her to some extent, but she needs some way to make the whirlwind of crap manageable. The world has enabled so many bullshitters. It's exhausting.

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

Maybe I shud've let Mave have u, she wrote. A good time to practise detachment, Jared thought. Separate the emotions from the conversation. Treat it like information, because that's all this was. Information.

When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and empire. From a race of hunters, artists, warriors, and tamers of horses, we degraded ourselves to what we are now: clerks, functionaries, laborers, entertainers, processors of information

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

The best place to find things: the public library.

Journalism is organized gossip.

A picture is worth a thousand words but it takes 3,000 times the disk space.

98% of all statistics are made up.

It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.