Quotes About Information

You should always believe all you read in the newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.

In 1471, as the first printed volumes appeared in Florence, the poet and scholar Angelo Poliziano—Lorenzo de' Medici's librarian and tutor to his children—complained: "Now the most stupid ideas can, in a moment, be transferred into a thousand volumes and spread abroad."16

Trying to get information out of a Los Angeles lawyer was like opening a can of sardines without a key.

the child's initial response seldom provides a clear understanding of their concern or perspective, so you're going to need to probe for more information. I call this probing process "drilling," and there's no doubt that drilling is the hardest part of all of Plan B.

to be conscious of myself is to be aware of myself as a node point in a web of information exchange, which corporately constructs the idea of objects, selves, persons.

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is information; wisdom is knowing how to use it.

Culture is partly made out of information. There are at least two main types of this information. One is a set of shared beliefs and values. The other is shared knowledge of how to do things. Culture consists of both.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Of all the people insistently expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he pauses to restock his brain, he invites onrushing headlines to trample him flat.

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

A world more in contact with each other than ever, and we chose to tell each other what we ordered for lunch.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

information linking him to the Sara-Sahara Shopping Complex. Finally, it was then, four

It is unfortunate that we have moved from intuition to information.