Quotes About Information

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

Before you take the first dose of any medication your doctor prescribes, you should make it your business to find out more about the drug than the doctor himself knows.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Banking is a branch of the information business.

In each business, there is a process, or a delivery system or information system, that is changing rapidly under them.

I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it's about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

I want to democratize business news.

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

Advertisement shouldn't look like information, it should look like a promise.

Don't confuse "strict confidentiality" with "keeping employees in the dark." Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means your brain is receiving information from your body what your car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

Public facts are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.

I am merely an operative for an outside government, who adopted an undercover persona and entered restricted territory through subterfuge for the purpose of discreetly gathering information that might be of use to my superiors.

The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information in action, information focused on results.

The danger is that executives will become contemptuous of information and stimulus that cannot be reduced to computer logic and computer language. Executives may become blind to everything that is perception (i.e., event) rather than fact (i.e., after the event). The tremendous amount of computer information may thus shut out access to reality.