Quotes About Information

The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.

The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

I have very little respect for the integrity of the trading on the exchange in most stocks. And I have particular disdain for the fact that the SEC has failed to deal with high-frequency traders who are doing nothing more than taking advantage of inside information, a buy or a sell order, because of technology advantages.

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

Assimilation is really a psychological process where you come to identify with a new country as yours. The ease of overseas travel and information access interferes with that.

The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

The wackos get their information through the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees.

Forming of a web of information nodes rather than a hierarchical tree or an ordered list is the basic concept behind HyperText.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

I buy about $1,500 worth of papers every month. Not that I trust them. I'm looking for the crack in the fabric.

Don't believe everything you read.

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

Believe everything you read

Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

You can't trust the internet.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.

I read the NY Times but I don't trust all of it