Quotes About Information

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.

Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.

I do believe that with more worldwide influences, the coming of the internet age and digital media, the flow of information is far greater, and people's understanding can expand more easily.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom.

We are choked with News and starved of History.

Haven't we all done this? Hardened a particular position, not as a response to superior information, but because of anger?

We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.