Quotes About Information

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

Everything also calms down with the influx of social media, there's so much happening all the time.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

First get the facts, you can distort them later

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

People who do not read have no advantage over those who can not read.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

way. And there ain't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things.

If you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.

Considering the elaborate circumstantiality of detail observable in the item, it seems to me that it ought to contain more information than it does. On

In my more lucid moments I realized that insanity was a fairly reasonable explanation for what was happening to me. The problem was that it wasn't useful information. Realizing I was crazy didn't make the crazy stuff stop happening. Nor did it give me any clues about what I should do next.

Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio telling me more and more about some useless information.

Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.

World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

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

In the age of instant information man ends his job of fragmented specializing and assumes the role of information-gathering. Today information-gathering resumes the inclusive concept of "culture" exactly as the primitive food-gatherer worked in complete equilibrium with his entire environment. Our quarry now, in this new nomadic and "workless" world, is knowledge and insight into the creative processes of life and society.