Quotes About Information

This is the curse of the postscarcity world: We can connect to only a thin thread of all there is. Each

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years.

As the old joke goes: "Software, free. User manual, $10,000." But it's no joke.

The industrial age was driven by analog copies—exact and cheap. The information age is driven by digital copies—exact and free.

Every minute a new impossible thing is uploaded to the internet and that improbable event becomes just one of hundreds of extraordinary events that we'll see or hear about today. The

From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have "published" at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million songs, 3.5 trillion images, 330,000 movies, 1 billion hours of videos, TV shows, and short films, and 60 trillion public web pages.

In the universal library, no book will be an island. It's all connected.

Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections do too.

Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

If today's social media has taught us anything about ourselves as a species, it is that the human impulse to share overwhelms the human impulse for privacy.

The link and the tag may be two of the most important inventions of the last 50 years. You

A well-written, well-organized book packages the author's brain. It is the purest, richest, most complete way to take what's inside one person's brain and move it into another person's brain...As long as society finds it valuable to consume the stories, research, and thoughts of its intellectual leaders, the basic idea of the book should endure. Paper books will get pressured by electronic versions over time, but the art form should remain vital.

The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully

The last to learn gossip are the parties concerned.

I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.

Under the new policy, any time the NSA discovers a major flaw in software, it must disclose the vulnerability to vendors and others so the flaw can be patched.

In amassing zero-day exploits for the government to use in attacks, instead of passing the information about holes to vendors to be fixed, the government has put critical-infrastructure owners and computer users in the United States at risk of attack from criminal hackers, corporate spies, and foreign intelligence agencies who no doubt will discover and use the same vulnerabilities for their own operations.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

the cost of storing information is approaching zero (storing 1GB costs an average of less than $0.03 a year today, compared to more than $10,000 20 years ago).

Back in 1971, Herbert Simon, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978, warned that "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." This is much worse today, in particular for decision-makers who tend to be overloaded with too much "stuff" – overwhelmed and on overdrive, in a state of constant stress.

An estimated 90% of the world's data has been created in the past two years, and the amount of information created by businesses is doubling every 1.2 years.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.