Quotes About Information

Working memory involves two different but related skills. The first is the ability to hold information in mind while performing complex tasks.

To evaluate weaknesses in your teen, be aware of his capacity to engage in effortful (and nonpreferred) mental tasks. If he is bright and a good "consumer" of information (interested in a range of topics, likes to read and watch educational programs), but is not a good "producer" of information (struggles with projects, papers, etc.), executive skills are likely involved.

Served up through the id-feeding Technicolor TV drip that passed for national news coverage, he was just new dosage in a regime already 150 years screen-ingrained.

who knows how the data behind these metaphors has traveled, from where and for how long.

books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

I have no luddite prejudice against new technology; it's just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.

Intelligent and competent, Louisa Pierson was far more than a source of information or advisor on diplomatic etiquette.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

Callie would never understand how Bill Gates had been shortsighted enough to give everybody easy access to the internet so that some day, these jackasses could reveal all of his dastardly plans.

investigoogling

She spent the next hour dividing her time between the phone and the computer; scaring the ever-loving shit out of herself while waiting on hold by investiGoogling type 2 diabetes on her laptop. She found one nut who claimed diabetes was a governmental plot to extract billions of dollars from the unsuspecting public in order to wage the war for oil.

Ben Hecht said, "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Twittering just seemed to be people telling other people what they were doing--getting in the shower, making coffee. Who on earth wanted to know these things?...Babble and twitter. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers.

The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehood and errors.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.