Quotes About Information

In the case of someone sharing classified information with foreign intelligence, for example, the FBI could surreptitiously ensure that they are no longer able to obtain sensitive information.

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information will eventually choke us.

Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information

I'm the official Senses Taker, and I must have some information before I can take your senses

But Elsie thought she could find it. She had heard that policemen, when politely addressed, or thumbscrewed by an investigation committee, will give up information and addresses.

So great was the mass of information forced upon the student, that he had no time to think of the mutual implications of the various branches of his knowledge.

Information doesn't change behavior," quips Lisa. "If it did, none of us would smoke and we'd all floss.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Compassion is what you're good at. I'm better at complex searches through organized data structures.

The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head.

You guessed it! And you say you aren't creative! We did not guess anythiung. We deduced it from the plethora of data you provided us, both consciously and unconsciously. And yet you couldn't detect the irony in my enthusiasm. We detected it. As information, however, it was worthless.

The secret is not to avoid learning useless knowledge. It's to make use of whatever knowledge you have.

There's never enough information...That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.

But it does mean that she almost never witnesses lovers' quarrels, bedtime stories, classroom arguments, supper-table gossip, or bitter tears privately shed. She only knows that aspect of our lives that we represent as digital information.

The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them — noticing them — that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

Sometimes the government is the last to know.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Then why does every sentence beginning 'We need to talk' end in disaster? Our whole evolutionary history has been about trying to stop information from getting communicated—camouflage, protective coloration, that ink that squids squirt, encrypted passwords, corporate secrets, lying. Especially lying. If people really wanted to communicate, they'd tell the truth, but they don't.

He rang off, pocketed the disk

We're here on a need-to-know basis. There is no machinery in evolution for informing us of the existence of phenomena that do not affect our survival. What is here that we dont know about we dont know about.

Information and survival will ultimately be the same thing.

Manchmal ist es schon praktisch, dass unser Gedaechtnis nicht halb so gut ist wie das der Buecher, ohne sie wuessten wir vermutlich gar nichts mehr.