Quotes About Information

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

Widely disseminated disinformation is as good as information until discredited.

What we call the past is built on bits.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.

I was told that if you work hard, bust your butt, go to school, and get great grades, you'd do well in life. That's a bunch of crap. Today we have better information about how the universe operates and how we operate.

History is concerned primarily with human phenomena, not with natural; and history is doubly human because, as an idea, it is man's creation, challenging him to transcend the limits of information about himself and to discover what he is by finding meaning in what he has done. In short, it is man's commentary on man.

Link by link, click by click, search is building possibly the most lasting, ponderous, and significant cultural artifact in the history of humankind: the Database of Intentions.

In no other form of society in history has there been such a concentration of images, such a density of visual messages.

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consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.

new ideas take over a vacuum formerly occupied by no well-articulated idea at all. That happens for either of two reasons: new ideas responding to new information made possible by new measurements, or else responding to new "outlooks." (Among historians of science, the term used rather than the inadequate English term "outlook" is the German Fragestellung—literally, the posing of a question, but more broadly meaning a worldview from which that question can arise.)

Information is a measure of uncertainty reduced.

Herbert Simon said it best: "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.")

I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.

After the visit, George wrote an essay, "Turing's Cathedral," which, for the first time, alerted the public about what Google's founders had in store for the world. "We are not scanning all those books to be read by people," explained one of his hosts after his talk. "We are scanning them to be read by an AI.

Various magazine articles have predicted nothing less than the disappearance of the book as it now exists, and pictured the library of the future as a sort of monster computer capable of storing and retrieving the contents of books electronically and xerographically.

We must look at the price system as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function," Hayek

Newspaper stories were like newly caught fish, worthy of attention only for as long as they remained fresh, which was not very long at all. They

There appeared to be only two types of business in the town: everybody's business, and business that was not yet everybody's but soon would be once the local gossips had got to work on it.

Any string of symbols that can be given an abbreviated representation is called algorithmically compressible.

Quantum mechanics holds sway in the microworld of atoms and elementary particles. It teaches us that every mass in Nature, however solid or pointlike it may appear, has a wavelike aspect. This wave is not like a water wave. It is more analogous to a crime wave or a wave of hysteria: it is a wave of information.

Americans don't want to think. They want to know.

Traditional education tended to ignore the importance of personal impulse and desire as moving springs. But this is no reason why progressive education should identify impulse and desire with purpose and thereby pass lightly over the need for careful observation, for wide range of information, and for judgment is students are to share in the formation of the purposes which activate them

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.