Quotes About Information

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it. On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition:

human memory is not merely the repository of information in the brain. It is much more than this, and something that a machine can never be: a power, a force by which we mentally reproduce not just information but also our experiences, by which we shape our perceptions, introspect, interpret and analyse the direction our life has taken.

Information is strength without coordination. We become a danger mostly to ourselves when we have it. Understanding is the ability to coordinate that raw information in meaningful ways. Understanding creates a certain enthusiasm. We can direct our knowledge toward potentially useful ends--but we may also be a danger to others. Wisdom, however, is knowing how, when, and why we use our understanding; wisdom is settling into our understanding without being too enamored by it.

Morse's invention dramatically altered the way we relate to information by breaking, for the first time,, the historic connection between communication and transportation.

More guns! Weren't they supposed to just use bully clubs in England? Where had she been getting her information?

The local paper is called the World.

Still, many teens have inadequate or erroneous information about sex and its consequences.11

Deleted the memory—need room for facts," I took the time to type.

You can always trust information given to you by people who are crazy. They have access to truth not available through regular channels.

The facts are your friends. Get as many of them as you can before you make any judgments about your client's case.

Whispering against her ear, he confessed, "When I'm really stressed out...I play with my toes." Gwen leaned back a bit and stared at him. "Seriously?" "It's really relaxing and very bearlike." And very weird. And yet..."I'm oddly comforted by this information.

He made it to the front door before he looked back at her. Then his eyes grew wide. "Oh! I almost forgot." He came back over to her and handed her a card. "These are my numbers, e-mail addresses, business URL, physical address, and mailing address. You know…if you need to get in touch with me." Get in touch with him? But he left out his social security number, his date of birth, and his high school GPA.

The Gulf War may not have occurred in the actual global space, but it did occur in global time. And this thanks to CNN and The Pentagon.

As I pointed out in The Art of the Motor and elsewhere, from now on we need two watches: a wristwatch to tell us what time it is and a GPS watch to tell us what space it is!

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.