Quotes About Information

If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The great advantage of digital media is that it can be stored, retrieved and massaged by a computer—at lightning speed and with unerring accuracy.

In markets, you gain leverage by your power to walk away. Inside organizations, you gain leverage by having control over key items such as resources, decisions, budgets, information, and the like.

The idea of Solution was that if you asked questions and didn't keep mindlessly building widgets, your score would be lower, but you would find out you were working in a factory that supplied machine parts to the Third Reich. Once you had this information, you could potentially slow your output. You could make the bare number of parts required not to be detected by the Reich, or you could stop producing parts entirely.

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We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has.

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

I'm a librarian," he said. "I always know what I'm talking about.

Mr Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

It has been said that intelligence is not about knowing everything, but about knowing where to find everything.)

they favor new information over old, even if the older information is more valuable.

The unintended consequence of abundance is that we are bombarded with more information and choices in a day than our ancestors received in a lifetime.

The person making the discovery gets some new piece of information and sees how it combines with other information to form a new idea. Sometimes the person sees a new way to combine different kinds of information even if none of them are new.

Martin Chalfie is a perfect example of the experience most people have of "connecting the dots" and solving a problem by being exposed to more ideas. Like Chalfie, we get a new piece of information that combines with other information we already have, and, presto, we make a discovery.

Rational decisions are necessarily bounded by the information available to employees. If managers don't understand what it will cost to capture an incremental dollar in revenue, they will always pursue the incremental revenue.

The four building blocks that managers can use to improve strategy execution—decision rights, information, structure, and motivators—are inextricably linked.

Every one strengthens one or more of the building blocks executives can use to improve their strategy-execution capability: clarifying decision rights, improving information, establishing the right motivators, and restructuring the organization. The

As we've stressed, you should first take steps to address decision rights and information, and then design the necessary changes to motivators and structure to support the new design.

Execution is the result of thousands of decisions made every day by employees acting according to the information they have and their own self-interest.

What Jacob and Monod had discovered, in essence, was that each gene acts like a single line in a computer program.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave ' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

On a personal note, even though I have a professional interest in hazard and risk, I never watch the local television news and haven't for years. Try this and you'll likely find better things to do before going to sleep than looking at thirty minutes of disturbing images presented with artificial urgency and the usually false implication that it's critical for you to see it.)