Quotes About Information

There's so much data, but no one really wants to know anything, don't you think?

El cielo estaba relleno de señales de televisión.

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.

The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.

We know less and less about our patients but more and more about our science.

I called Segal and filled him in.

The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that. I am worried, I told Douglass.

it's the meaning behind the information that people are looking for more than the facts. The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that.

Patients ask questions, look up information on the Internet, seek second opinions. And they decide.

At one time, we might have turned to an old-timer to explain the world. Now we consult Google, and if we have any trouble with the computer we ask a teenager

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

What little factual information I absorbed in my life was gleaned from lectures the Professor gave to Gilligan. For

Don't tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.

Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.

We want the Demon, you see, to extract from the dance of atoms only information that is genuine, like mathematical theorems, fashion magazines, blueprints, historical chronicles, or a recipe for ion crumpets, or how to clean and iron a suit of asbestos, and poetry too, and scientific advice, and almanacs, and calendars, and secret documents, and everything that ever appeared in any newspaper in the Universe, and telephone books of the future...

Then what exactly is it that you design? He gave a proud smile. Bitless compositions. Bitless? You mean, from bits, the units of information? No, Mr. Tichy, the units of being bitten.

When that voice, though freely resounding, cannot be heard, because the technologies of information have led to a situation in which one can receive best the message of him who shouts the loudest, even when the most falsely?

Dopóki nie skorzystaÅ'em z Internetu, nie wiedziaÅ'em, ?e na Å›wiecie jest tylu idiotów

The "well-informed" think they know something about matters that the experts are reluctant even to speak of. Information at second hand always gives an impression of tidiness, in contrast with the data at the scientist's disposal, full of gaps and uncertainties.

The amount of information that is necessary for even a general grasp of the questions dealt with in the Project exceeds, to tell the truth, the brain capacity of a single individual. But ignorance, while it checks the enthusiasm of the sensible, in no way restrains the fools; thus in the ocean of published papers that His Master's Voice has called into existence, a man can find whatever suits him, as long as he is not overly concerned about the truth.

according to Lem's Law, 'No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets' -- owing to general lack of time, the oversupply of books, and the perfection of advertising.

The goal then is not to abandon categorical thinking—we can't really shift our thinking in this way any more than we can choose to process information like computers (it's not really possible). Instead, we need to learn to recognize when a classification is neither useful nor valid, that's the challenge.