Quotes About Information

Order is information that fits a purpose. The measure of order is the measure of how well the information fits the purpose.

capacity, and bandwidth) of information technologies

Where some people see a divine hand, others see a multiverse spawning an evolution of universes with the boring (non-information-bearing) ones dying out. But regardless of how our universe got to be the way it is, we can start our story with a world based on information.

Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

A key aspect of a probabilistic fractal is that it enables the generation of a great deal of apparent complexity, including extensive varying detail, from a relatively small amount of design information. Biology uses this same principle. Genes supply the design information, but the detail in an organism is vastly greater than the genetic design information.

Information is not knowledge. The world is awash in information; it is the role of intelligence to find and act on the salient patterns. For example, we have hundreds of megabits of information flowing through our senses every second, the bulk of which is intelligently discarded. It is only the key recognitions and insights (all forms of knowledge) that we retain. Thus intelligence selectively destroys information to create knowledge.

It was not Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank that overturned the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, but rather the clandestine network of fax machines, photocopiers, video recorders, and personal computers that broke decades of totalitarian control of information

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Ironically, it was the completion of the Human Genome Project a decade ago that showed how little the genetic code told us about living organisms (and even less about complex ones such as us).

Cable news is nothing more than entertainment, except for the International version of CNN and perhaps the BBC.

The job for cable is to give the news and then also give the 'so what.'

I've got a new rule. It'll be rule No. 312. If it's three days before a campaign, don't believe anything new you hear about anybody.

I don't read much about the Canadian Football League.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.

With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

The census should not be political.

I am a child of the 21st century.

I read certain things about history. I don't like fiction. I read about stuff that's real, stuff that's goin' on in the world.

People who watch news are pretty smart. Most of them don't just go to one channel for all their news anyway.