Quotes About Information

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Let the greater part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest.

A good message will always find a messenger.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

I think, as human beings, we all have a fundamental mode, a basic way of relating to the rest of reality, and for me, it's always instinctively been about sound making and trying to extract information, grammar, meaning from sound making. That's been my way of navigating reality that's very personal; a painter might say they make marks or look.

Once you start looking into the infrastructure, it becomes obvious very quickly that 99 percent of the world's information goes through little tubes under the ocean. Those are very juicy targets for someone who wants to surveil the world.

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

We tune in to news companies for them to give us some sense of grounded assessment of what the truth is.

Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

Everyone must turn to Infowars as a standard to be saved. Tell folks, 'Hey, it's the most censored thing in the world for a reason. Jones is dialed in. Jones knows what's going on.'

What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing.

I have a limited knowledge of the Internet, which is pretty clear, I don't even turn anything on other than my phone, when it gets stuck, my kids turn it on.

I like that with social media, you can choose how much you want to reveal. If there is an issue that requires clarification, at least you can turn to social media. You know it's coming from the horse's mouth.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.