Quotes About Information

shutdown your electronic hallucinations. Turn off Facebook, don't put anything in your ears, throw out your TV. I don't Tweet. You have to read!

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

I think there's a lot of misunderstanding about genetic information and what you can and cannot learn.

The Internet is a global lavatory wall, a Rabelaisian mixture of truth, lies, insanity and humour.

On mobile, what are the core apps? It's basically messaging, mapping and review data.

Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

When we were kids, if somebody said, 'What did you watch last night?' you would have said, 'BBC Two,' but now they'll just say, 'My mobile.'

In our modern age - in the age of free information - I don't think there is any place for dictatorships.

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.

When my 'Scientific American' arrives every month, I read it cover to cover.

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

If you have lung cancer, the most important thing you can know is your genetic code.

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

I spend a fair amount of time dealing with email, mostly deleting them or skimming them to get a sense of what is going on.

Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

Neither he [Ferenczi] nor Freud believed that a person should be exempted from legal punishment--or worse, that he should be punished by compulsory psychiatric treatments--because of psychoanalytic information about him. In the light of current thought, this is a startling and sobering fact.

The Target algorithm hadn't produced a superhuman leap of logic, but a very human one: it figured out exactly what you or I or anyone else would also have figured out, given the same information.

Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan, puts it succinctly: "To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers."27

But we can and should remember to ask who or what might be missing from the data we're being told about.