Quotes About Information

In today's world, where information is available everywhere, a school should shift away from propagating information to becoming an inspirational place, which builds beautiful human beings. Education should become a joyful choice, not a compulsive extruder out of which every child has to come out in a certain shape.

The smartest thing about most people is their phone.

The very idea of massified advertising meant that large cirulation newpapers were not in the business of selling information to people but rather of selling the attention of their readers to commercial concerns... to tap into the resorvoir of resources constitutred by the growing urban populations

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

The internet is 95 percent porn and spam

knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something.

But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something. We

As for the adverse publicity, they could squelch it at source, since the media Corps controlled what was news and what wasn't. And the Internet was such a jumble of false and true factoids that no one believed what was on it any more, or else they believed all of it, which amounted to the same thing.

Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19

Because it takes less brain power to believe than to doubt, we are, when tired or distracted, gullible.25 Because we are all biased, and biases are quick and effortless, exhaustion makes us favor the information we know and are comfortable with. We're too tired to do the heavier lifting of examining new or contradictory information, so we fall back on our biases, the opinions and the people we already trust.

Questions are the heart and soul of constructive conflict. They open up the exploration, bring in new information, and reframe debate. When

Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.