Quotes About Information

control has to be by feedback from the work done. The work itself has to provide the information. If it has to be checked all the time, there is no control

The basic problem with the computer in business is not that computer technicians do not understand the managers' needs. It is that the managers do not take the time and trouble to think through their needs and to communicate them to the computer people.6 How the computer people satisfy the needs of the manager is their business. What the needs are is the manager's business. To expect the computer people to define the information needs of the managers is abdication.

The Functions of the Executive, that organizations are held together by information rather than by ownership or command.

finally there is just one truth: the official version.

In Manchuria, I had learned one important fact about propaganda: the key information isn't what you put in, but what you leave out.

Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes.

As society grows, it knows more and more about less and less. It knows more about the little things and less about the big things. It knows more about everything and less about Everything.

The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay

Time matters most when decisions are irreversible. And yet many irreversible decisions must be made on the basis of incomplete information.

library! Oh, I forgot. Same thing.

While catching up on the news is merely depressing to the citizen who has no stocks, it is a dangerous habit for the investor.

Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business

and magazines and listen to the same economists.

To my mind, the stock price is the least useful information you can track, and it's the most widely tracked.

I would suggest that the fundamental "information problem" faced by managers is not too little information but too much information. What we most need are ways to know what is important and what is not important, what variables to focus on and which to pay less attention to—and we need ways to do this that can help groups or teams develop shared understanding.

Banks scanned the Yorkshire Post and The Independent reports to see if either newspaper knew more than the police. Sometimes they did, and it could be damned embarrassing all round.

All she knew was what she read in the papers, where it seemed that people no longer lived their lives, but had life-styles instead.

There is a] growing conviction that quantum mechanics is at root a theory not of tiny particles and waves but of information and its causative influence. It's a theory of how much we can deduce about the world by looking at it, and how that depends on intimate, invisible connections between here and there.

Decoherence – entanglement with the environment – is the very process by which information passes from the quantum system to its environment. It's what makes this information accessible: what makes the pointer move. Thanks to einselection, the information gets filtered in the process so that only the pointer states survive.

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three-dimensional and not in space or time. The information fed to us we hypostatize into the phenomenal world.

Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load of accumulated knowledge. It is information rich. Logically, then, in its retrograde tracking, it would divest itself of its knowledge: teach rather than learn, so that when it arrived at the other end, it would be information poor, even info empty.

The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three-dimensional and not space time. The information fed to us we hypostatize into the phenomenal world.

It was hell living in the twenty-first century. Information transfer had reached the velocity of light.

We and our environments form such interconnected cluster systems that mutually process information and alter it while exchanging it; we are all (humans) like a vast compound eye which shows a repetition of the motion of a single object but each cell reflecting slightly differently. (p.155)