Quotes About Information

A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists.

Information is the coin of war.

Michael often said that information was the coin of power, and that it was not a coin to be spent frivolously.

Few people understood the weapon that was a properly fashioned twist of information.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.

But I think you have a right to know what it is you're not being told.

News is unusual things happening— And usual things happening [...] But news is mainly what someone somewhere doesn't want you to put in the paper— Except that sometimes it isn't [...] News, [...] all depends. But you'll know it when you see it.

There is no higher life form than a librarian.

People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins.

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

The reality is, to watch Jon Stewart, you already have to have watched the news. In other words, it's not funny if he does a joke about John McCain and they don't know who John McCain is.

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.

So much of journalism is conveying a place and time that existed, to someone at a later date: giving a person the context and trying to make them feel as informed as if they were actually there.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.