Quotes About Information

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

I'm really not interested in writing about science at all. I mean, I try to get the information right, the details right. But fiction isn't good at conveying information: It's good at telling stories about people in interesting situations.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Now, as far as I know, nobody has ever put up the U.S.'s nuclear missiles on the Internet. I mean, it's not something I've heard about.

Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

I've been on social media for quite a long time, maybe because I've been sending out nutrition information.

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.

When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.

I like to consider myself a detective, which is how I justify my obsession with my phone. By nature, since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a detective, and any portal to information and investigating things I have ever been given access to, I have dived into. With my phone, unfortunately, I have immediate access to everything.

There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.