Quotes About Information

Because the media control sources of information, according to Dylan, "We live in a world of fantasy where Disney has won. . . . It's all fantasy.

In an era where the word communication reigns, where an unlimited mass of information can be accessed within a few seconds, we complain about having lost contact with our body and with other human beings. We suffer from extreme solitude, we suffer from no longer touching each other, we suffer from the "virtualization" of our feelings, the expression of our emotions, and our sensorality.

The U.S. collected information superbly and everywhere, from space to dirt. They tracked all kinds of events and things and people. For long-lead-time matters, like the order of battle for the Chinese fleet, that sufficed. For short-fuse needs, it got much, much more excruciating. Of the mass of data gathered, only a small percentage (50 percent? 10 percent? 5 percent?) ever got analyzed. Only a tiny fraction of that produced the specificity to allow action.

The MI folks could usually tell you the make, model, year, paint color, and license plate of the semitrailer truck that just ran over you.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own set of facts.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself.

You have pretty fair evidence to go on if you suspect that polls in general are biased in one specific direction, the direction of the Literary Digest error. This bias is toward the person with more money, more education, more information and alertness, better appearance, more conventional behavior, and more settled habits than the average of the population he is chosen to represent.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

historical skepticism, (2) new information, (3) cultural factors that have changed how we assess things, and (4) the innate desire in people to seek, cope with, or understand the spiritual.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time constraints and have the intellectual depth of hamsters. But TV news can only present the "bare bones" of a story; it takes a newspaper, with its capability to present vast amounts of information, to render the story truly boring.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Men are physically stronger than women, but they are rarely more ruthless or as effective at gathering information.

but then who said journalists need to know anything about their subject before spouting their ill-informed opinions to millions?

Ninety percent of making the right decision is the gathering of information. The bigger the decision, the more time you take, the more options you gather, and the more informed you should become.

For the timbre of a human voice singing a single sustained note carries an abundance of information for those whose ears are tuned to such clues—information about the internal state of various organs in the singer's body, and the relative tension or ease in that person, the level of aggression or peaceful intent.

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.

Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

Like a black hole, NSA pulls in every signal that comes near, but no electron is ever allowed to escape.