Quotes About Information

when they become informed, they become tired like you, jaded.

With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents over facts, and I used to watch on in mute astonishment. How could anyone actually argue about something that could be looked up?

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

The Internet makes everything much less mysterious.

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in a close-up. There's less mystery.

I believe that when the public lacks even the most fundamental access to what its governments and militaries are doing in their names, then they cease to be involved in the act of citizenship.

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

The Internet knows no national borders.

Every portal coming into this country is being attacked by those who would harvest information, both national security secrets and just the common information of private individuals and private individuals. That crime is going on, every day, on a single entity known as the Internet.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

Our ability to connect as a nation with other nations around the world is enhanced dramatically by the Internet.

If you come from the Internet, as I do - I think of it as sort of my native country - there's a lot of great things happening on the Internet, but one of the things, one of the feelings you just can't escape is the sense that it's really hard to keep people's attention.

Daniel Boorstin in The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

Tao also provides you with information and ideas , arranges meetings and opportunities , and pressures you with adversity when you have strayed from the evolutionary path that establishes your destiny on planet Earth.

What we call " revelations " is a correct term because the information or the idea is revealed to us. We downloaded it from Tao's bank of wisdom and information.

You already have zero privacy. Get over it! --Scott McNealy CEO Sun Microsystems 1999

What holds scripture together is not simply accurate information or inerrant propositions about God, life, and the world. What holds it together is the reality of Christ himself, the living, eternal Son through whom God reconciles the world to himself in love.

Honey, it's no good to ever think that way. We make the decisions we make based on information we have at the time. You did what you thought was right. How could you possibly have known there were such monsters in the world? I didn't know. They killed Genevieve's boyfriend and her grandmother. They killed my mentor and my brother. I still didn't know, not really, not until I saw them for myself. You can't blame yourself for something that is out of your control.

In summary, every conscious experience has five distinct and undeniable properties: each one exists for itself, is structured, informative, integrated and definite. These are the five essential hallmarks of any and all conscious experiences, from the commonplace to the exalted, from the painful to the orgiastic.

There are no shared memories anymore. Now, now there's twitter and email and Facebook and cable and satellite