Quotes About Information

I don't mind arguing back and forth with people who have actual information.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

There has to be news at a place called Fox News.

I cannot afford to watch Fox News.

It's funny, I never watch TV. I watch Fox News.

When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

I think the Internet is a free press, you know?

Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

The silliest, most frustrating national dialogue has been this chattering about waterboarding and slapping around bad guys in order to extract information from them.

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

If I were like Lionel, I would write a book: Obvious Lies, Bad Advice, and Wrong Information I've Gotten from Men. A book? An encyclopedia! But in this case my friend was right.

those selling abortion don't want them to have [the facts], Virginia said heatedly. Besides the Supreme Court doesn't agree with you. They judges seem to think we poor women would fall apart if we knew the facts, so they decided women don't have the right to know the full truth. She shook her head. They've made it legal to withhold vital information, even when a woman requests it, for heaven's sake!

No,' I replied. 'You've got it wrong. He was a great prehistorian because he lived his own life to the full. Yes, prehistory is about facts and information, but it's mostly about people and you will never be able to understand the challenges faced by ancient communities if you've led a sheltered life yourself.

Organisms do not passively receive information from their environments, which they then translate into internal representations. Natural cognitive systems...participate in the generation of meaning ...engaging in transformational and not merely informational interactions: they enact a world.

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

Data," Paul said. "I need more data.

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed.