Quotes About Information

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

I don't read much of anything online.

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

People are interested in things not necessarily covered by the mainstream media, so they download things online. The categories are growing because people find out that they're not able to get information about stories that are of interest to them on the evening news.

Everybody can, you know, go online, read about something, and have an opinion about something.

I read the 'New York Times,' 'USA Today,' the 'Union-Tribune,' then go online to Drudge, CNN, Fox News, blogs.

People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.

The only time information is really an edge is if you either have more or you're using it better.

We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

We citizens don't need to know every detail of every military operation in this new kind of war. Nor should the media tell us and hence our enemy.

In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.

In the traditional academic literature, secrecy is thought of as a set of bureaucratic operations - hiding files and hiding information, that sort of thing.

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

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

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

I ask merely for information.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The journalistic cliché that this is the -information age- is misleading if it suggests that in the past, either recent or distant, we did not depend on information.

Patricia Brennan Demuth