Quotes About Information

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

Local television is still the No. 1 source for news and part of the family.

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found the source organism and extracted the genes to make your drug. Now physical science is becoming information science.

I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don't think there's ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us - who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we're buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.

The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.

We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

The Internet is a clear example of how our lives have changed in ways we couldn't have imagined: a distributed information source, which is invisible to everyone, where you can access anything, and it's distributed throughout the whole world. Basically, communication is instantaneous.

I get mad at myself when I get news from Twitter before I get it from a regular news source. Then I'm off to a bad start: getting the second-hand, filtered experience all day long.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction.

We need to boycott the mainstream media, and we need to go online, and we need to find credible news sources.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

I deal with first-hand sources. And give the people, even John Sununu, the opportunity to respond to what I've been told by first-hand sources.

Rather than hearing from the city council president, you'd hear from sources all across the country.