Quotes About Information

But the Daily Mail isn't to be trusted, Jacob said to himself, looking about for something else to read.

He began with the day's copy of The New York Times. His lips moving like wrestling worms, he read about all kinds of things. Hrushchov

Information is alienated experience.

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

Because only a fool believes everything they read or are told.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

I often have people come up to me after a sermon and show me their outline, pointing out some blanks they filled out before the message began. You can see in their eyes and sly smile a sense of "Look, I got you!" In reality I got them. If they're jotting down a passage, a point, or one of my favorite sound bites before I say it, they've come to the point of knowing the information. In the ultimate sense, my message has become memorable.

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.

People don't tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

Que os hace tanta gracia? -pregunto ella desconcertada. -La mercancía se ve, se pesa, se palpa y, si es necesario, se prueba y hasta se huele -Explico Loxan con cierto tono burlón-. Puedes valorarla y pedir algo a cambio. Pero la información... -hizo un gesto vago con la mano, como si quisiera atrapar el aire que respiraban- no se puede medir de la misma manera. ¿Cuanto vale? ¿Lo sabes tu, acaso?

If my response seems slow when asked a question, I always explain: 'It is because I have numerous files and subfiles to sort through in order to retrieve the info . . . please stand by. Help . . . my computer needs more memory!

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

One of the most common codes used across the planet is binary or digital code.

From 1500 to about 1550, not one book concerning Portuguese discoveries was published

Our DNA has a galactic history. True writers, composers, fine artists writers, who go deep within themselves, bring forth galactic information. We are soul-libraries of the galaxy.

As an eminent neuroscientist, Damasio is as qualified as anyone to define the brain, and he calls it an "'organ' of information and government.

The perfect adventure shouldn't be that much more hazardous in a real sense than ordinary life, for that invisible rope that holds us here can always break. We can live a life of bored caution and die of cancer. Better to take the adventure, minimize the risks, get the information, and then go forward in the knowledge that we've done everything we can. No

Knowledge of the sort you need does not begin with information, it begins with experience and perception. But there is a dark and twisty road from experience and perception to correct action.

CHARLES PERROW is a sociologist known for studying industrial accidents, such as those that occur with nuclear power plants, airlines, and shipping. In Normal Accidents, he wrote that "We construct an expected world because we can't handle the complexity of the present one, and then process the information that fits the expected world, and find reasons to exclude the information that might contradict it. Unexpected or unlikely interactions are ignored when we make our construction.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.