Quotes About Information

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Can any traditionally organized government withstand the ideological forces of a technologically empowered proletariat? Call them tweetmobs, blogmobs, txtmobs or simply citizen publishers—everyone has a voice, and no matter how the government tries to silence them, in the Information Age, information will find a way.

When like-minded men who are all dedicated and committed to the same cause have a difference of opinion, that just means we need more information," President Nelson explained. "We don't need to debate it longer at that point, we need to go back and study it more and gather more information, because we don't yet have enough information to agree.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

She sometimes thought of her mind as bearing a certain resemblance to the post office, a complex system that sorted and conveyed packets of information with speed and efficiency. But at the moment her most prized asset was more comparable to an automobile, a machine liable to break down every few miles and strand the hapless motorist by the side of the road.

The web promises to make our world bigger. But as it works now, it also narrows our exposure to ideas. We can end up in a bubble in which we hear only the ideas we already know. Or already like.

When you depend on the computer to remember your past, you focused on whatever past is kept on the computer.

It's fine to sometimes use these archetypes as a conduit to get information from the depths, but I recommend that you mostly use them as a conduit to bring clarity and equanimity to the depths. Become fascinated with how they move, and less tripped out with what they mean.

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.

Gossip is nature's telephone.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Studying and enhancing the "information environment" for decision-making, as Rasmussen and Svedung put it, can be a good place to start.46 This information environment, after all, is where assessments are made, decisions are shaped, in which local rationality is created. It is the place where the social and the technical meet; where risk itself is constructed.

It has to do with being open, with a willingness to share information about safety problems without the fear of being nailed for them.

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.

Apparently the Germans had a database of 13,000 kicks.

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.