Quotes About Information

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Years later it is common for it to be thought that the possession of an opinion on a subject, which is active, is deemed more important than having any information on that subject, which is passive; and that the vehemence (feeling) with which an opinion is held is more important than the facts (knowledge) upon which it is based.

I think, however, the current fascination with the computer and its principal product, information, deserves a more critical response. This is because the computer does so ingeniously mimic human intelligence that it may significantly shake our confidence in the uses of the mind. And it is the mind that must think about all things, including the computer.

You'll hear me say this again: save your brain for higher-level thinking. Use your organizer for storing information. Don't trust your brain.

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

The stupendous Fourth Estate, whose wide world-embracing influences what eye can take in?

There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

The movement from Industry to Information would prove to be the fundamental economic shift of the next four decades, and it was hardly some secret conspiracy even then. Going forward, as Daniel Bell had explained, knowledge would replace labor, services would replace goods, and a new knowledge-based power class would emerge that would increase the role of women in the economy.

We want to make Bing more than just search: to be the key intelligence engine behind the phone, get people to navigate, and present information in a meaningful way.

I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.

I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of millions of people who want to put their information on the Net and want people to have access to it.

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.

Everything about the Net is wonderful.

I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

The Internet is literally a network of networks.

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.