Quotes About Information

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is an illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The television commercial is the most efficient power-packed capsule of education that appears anywhere on TV.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

This guy knows his electronics, so he took basic precautions with his personal data, but—take a hike, She-Body, this is my area.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

Es soll keine Geheimnisse mehr geben, sagen die neuen Überwachungstheoretiker und meinen damit etwas recht Interessantes: dass die Ära, in der Geheimnisse zählten, in der Geheimnisse ihre Macht über das Leben von menschen ausüben konnten [...], vorbei ist; nicht, was sich zu wissen lohnt, kann nicht innerhalb von Sekunden und ohne großen Aufwand aufgedeckt werden; das Privatleben ist im Grunde ein Ding der Vergangenheit.

Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben können, die sehr von der im Lexikon angegebenen abweicht, wo der metaphorische Funke der Dechiffrierfunktion immer einen Sprung voraus ist, wo eine andere, unerwartete Interpretation stets möglich ist.

It is impossible to consistently outperform the market by using any information that the market already knows.

exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

Information is lightning-quick. It crosses cities, states, and national borders in the twinkle of an eye. It passes through many kinds of devices, flowing from phone to phone and computer to computer, rather than being sealed away in those silent marble temples we used to call banks.

I don't have an Instagram or anything like that. I have Twitter for work and also to read my news.

Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

I don't have a Twitter, so I don't know what's happening in that world.

The idea of Twitter started with me working in dispatch since I was 15 years old, where taxi cabs or firetrucks would broadcast where they were and what they were doing.