Quotes About Information

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened.

MSNBC is barred from my household. CNN is barred from my household.

It has been raised many times whether media, corporate houses, sports bodies and NGOs should come under RTI or not. It is not up to you or me to decide. It is up to the government to decide on that.

People are very confused about how to do things on a computer, but generally, if you hover your cursor over things, it will tell you what it is.

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds of factories around the world, and the question is: 'Where is everything?' And how do you bring it all together?

See, Curry, Detective Willis felt I was holding back some information and so he sulked off, like all men do when they don't get their way with women they've fooled around with.

Some children like how-to-do-it or all-about-everything type books, but I suspect parents like them best because they look so educational. These really should be in a separate category because they don't usually classify and literature but are more nearly manuals of information. Paul Hazard suggests that instead of pouring out so much knowledge on a child's soul that it is crushed, we should plant a seed of an idea that will develop from the inside.

If it isn't on YouTube, it might as well have never happened.

Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.

The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all.

the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth…and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

almost every living cell there was already a functioning computer with a huge memory? A mammalian cell had a DNA complement of several billion base pairs, each acting as a piece of information. What was reproduction, after all, but a computerized biological process of enormous complexity and reliability?

About the anti em conversion process. I think they've worked out ways to access a particle's bit structure, its self-information. To do that, they'd have to tamper with the so-called privileged channels.

Until now, the densest single unit of information processing on this planet was the human brain

information would be sent back to Washington, converted into punch cards, and programmed into the computer. Between seven to nine hours after liftoff, the computer would have enough data to compute the satellite's exact orbit and velocity.

What happened to the days when everyone was on the same page because what we saw and read was handed to us?

I believe one of the most pervasive problems in contemporary Western Christianity is that we mistakenly assume that information automatically translates into transformation.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

At ten kilohertz?