Quotes About Information

Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public's sense of truth.

If you are verifying information for yourself, you will not send on fake news to others. If

Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you.

If you retweet only the work of humans who have followed journalistic protocols, you are less likely to debase your brain interacting with bots and trolls.

We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it. During

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.

We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.

If we are serious about seeking the facts, we can each make a small revolution in the way the internet works. If you are verifying information for yourself, you will not send on fake news to others. If you choose to follow reporters whom you have reason to trust, you can also transmit what they have learned to others.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.

The one piece of information that best predicts whether Mr. Trump won or lost a county in November 2016 was the degree of opioid abuse.

Communication among citizens depends upon equality. At the same time, equality cannot be achieved without facts.

Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.

Some mon just deal wit' information. An' some mon, him deal wit' the concept of truth. An' den some mon deal wit' magic. Information flow aroun' ya, an' truth flow right at ya. But magic, it flow t'rough ya.

Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.

This impulse to preserve past knowledge by hitching narrative explanation to items exhibits what Ulrich calls the 'mnemonic power of goods.' Things become bearers of memory and information, especially when enhanced by stories that expand their capacity to carry meaning.

Ho l'impressione che più informazioni abbiamo, più siamo ignoranti.

I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation's secrets.

We live in an age of distraction, of overwhelming amounts of conflicting information and competing priorities. And these complications can easily derail our progress on the bridge of belief. Belief requires focus. It demands that we follow the lead of our feeling mind, of our intuition and assumptions. Distractions and difficulties turn on our thinking mind, which undermines belief by overriding our instincts.

ignore all of that doubt-inducing information and be driven by curiosity and passion.

The most memorable interviews for me are always the ones where I feel like I'm learning something new.

In the medical field, it is commonly assumed that the more information practitioners have, the better their decisions. However, this is frequently not so. More

The lateral thinking concept emerged from de Bono's study of how the mind works. He found that the brain is not best understood as a computer; rather, it is "a special environment which allows information to organize itself into patterns." The mind continually looks for patterns, thinks in terms of patterns, and is self-organizing, incorporating new information in terms of what it already knows. Given

By the laws of probability, most decisions made under pressure should be flawed ones, yet psychologists have found that people routinely make correct judgments most of the time, even with limited information. One

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.