Quotes About Information

Presumably this is because we personally experience our own localities, but we rely on the news for information about the wider world.

Screening, the theory of which won enfant terrible Joe Stiglitz a share of the Nobel Prize in 2001, is the art of finding out hidden information by forcing people to act, rather than simply murmur sweet nothings.)

Census taking is among the oldest ways of collecting statistics. Much newer, but with similar aspirations to reach everyone, is "big data." Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of Oxford's Internet Institute, and coauthor of the book Big Data, told me that his favored definition of a big dataset is one where "N = All"—where we no longer have to sample, because we have the entire background population.[18

Replacing materials with information" is a more powerful formulation than "replacing ownership with access.

O poder do acesso a pedido à informação é a chave para a próxima geração de aprendizagem. Aqueles que se preocupam com a tecnologia e o futuro do trabalho devem estar atentos a isso, bem como aos pequenos trechos de vídeo, como mecanismo de aprendizagem preferido.

In his ground-breaking book UFO Crash at Aztec, Californian researcher William Steinman covers for the first time some related information about Dr.

Leadership and obedience are the two legs on which a warrior's life is balanced. Without both, victory cannot be achieved. Leadership depends on information and comprehension. Not so obedience. Sometimes a commander may choose to share details of his plan. Often he may not. In either case, obedience must be instant and complete. Such automatic response relies on trust between commander and those commanded. And that trust can only be obtained through leadership.

There are patterns in imperial communications, as there are in everything else. Once the pattern is known, knowledge is easier to obtain.

Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.

good data organized effectively was the most important commodity for any analyst.

It's all about intelligence; and intelligence comes down to a bunch of faceless bureaucrats sifting through all this crap.

He was carrying nothing illegal, except for that which was in his head.

Jack missed the normality of merely reading the paper.

It is not often appreciated how much intelligence services depend on the news media for their information. Part of it was functional. They were in much the same business, and the intelligence services didn't have the brain market cornered.

government that had no secrets could not function.

Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.

So; in the beginning was the Word, but ten nanoseconds later there was a twelve-volume dictionary, and ten nanoseconds after that a Library of Congress, with 90 per cent of the books in foreign languages. It's probably not possible after such a lapse of time to find out what the original Word was. Given the consequences, however, it could well have been oops.

Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

it's hardly headline news that the corporate state and its media are using the latest gadget-com and gimmick-tech to dumb us down as steadily as if they were standing on a stool and pounding our brains with a frozen ham.

All this will come as a surprise to modern Internet users who may assume that today's social-media environment is unprecedented. But many of the ways in which we share, consume, and manipulate information, even in the Internet era, build upon habits and conventions that date back centuries.

most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.

At the time there were no printing presses and no paper.

Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.