Quotes About Information

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Optimists are just bad-informed people

It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

And now I'm going to find out how to get a library started.

Sometimes the assumptions we make about others come not from what we have been told or what we have seen on television or in books, but rather rom what we have not been told. The distortion of historical information about people of color leads young people (and older people to) to make assumptions that may go unchallenged for a long time.

Social psychologist Susan Fiske writes,"It is a simple principle: People pay attention to those who control their outcomes. In an effort to predict and possibly influence what is going to happen to them, people gather information about those with power."11

The world is'nt such a bad place at all - as long as one did'nt read the daily newspaper

A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the World Wide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.

This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I spend a lot of time reading.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past.

Wouldn't you like to see a positive LSD story on the news? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition? Perhaps? Wouldn't that be interesting? Just for once? "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration – that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There's no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

TV was like a third parent- a source of ideas and information and impressions. and not such a bad parent- always with time to spare, always eager to please, often funny.

TV, and the culture it anchors, masks and drowns out the subtle and vital information contact with the real world once provided. There are lessons, enormous lessons, lessons that may be crucial to the planet's persistence as a green and diverse place and also to the happiness of it's inhabitants-that nature teaches and TV can't.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.