Quotes About Information

you need to crack open the mundane casing of ordinary technologies and trace their archetypal wiring. Then you might find yourself, if only for a moment, tapping into the electromagnetic unheimlich. The spirits speak: in the information age, you are never at home.

At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

That's useful to know.

You are unlikely to eat something if you don't know what it is.

Dopamine is one of the chemical signals that passes information between neutrons to tell your brain that you are having fun.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

everyone assumes causation when they should be thinking coincidence, and correlation when they should be asking whether Twitter is really a reliable source of information.

I didn't tell him that it was all stored as binary information on rapidly spinning shiny discs, partly because I'd have to look up the details myself, but mostly because by the time he'd understood the technology it would have been replaced by something else.

Abigail gave me a withering look. But everyone assumes causation when they should be thinking coincidence, and correlation when they should be asking whether Twitter is really a reliable source of information.

The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.

But everyone assumes causation when they should be thinking coincidence, and correlation when they should be asking whether Twitter is really a reliable source of information.

These days Big Brother, or more precisely, your Bratty Techno Uncle, doesn't need an army of paid informers to keep tabs on you. Everybody seems dead keen to take personal responsibility for their own surveillance. So the problem with trying to keep a low profile is that sooner or later you'll have an involuntary encounter with someone who's dying to share your details with the world.

Driving yourself insane on the Internet is as easy as checking the weather.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

To retain German confidence, Agent Skoot would need to feed his handlers some true but harmless information—known in spy jargon as chicken feed, filling and substantial but lacking in real nourishment.

but with limited data their answers involved a lot of guesswork.

I never read the business pages of the newspaper; I couldn't relate to the stories.

King gave me an important piece of information: He

which seemed the right decision given what we knew then.