Quotes About Information

NIDS board members were part of a secret cabal known as the Aviary. Members of the cabal supposedly had their own birdlike code names such as the Owl or the Penguin. The mission of the sinister Aviary, according to the imaginative writer, was to control all information about the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. (The Aviary had been, and continues to be, a staple of conspiracy buffs.)

The keeper of the knowledge is the keeper of the power.

We only talk of what we know, so as to know of little is to talk of little.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

All information can be bought, my son, if you are willing to pay the price.

We like to go back and interview the people the suspect may have talked to. It doesn't have to be a woman or a boyfriend or girlfriend; it could be like a good friend of theirs or a family member that they split up with. We get a lot of information by going back to people.

Biography is at the mercy of information, and information about the Royal Family is seldom there when you want it. Or rather, there is a wealth of information, but most of it is window-dressing: the shop itself is shut, visible only through the front window, its private offices firmly under lock and key.

We exchange our privacy for access, and we may be losing our sense of agency in the process.

In an era of too much information, the need for discernment and wisdom will be greater than ever.

What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—"a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see."[53] What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects' brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.

Sam Lessin, project manager at Facebook, suggests, "We as a species in the last few decades have gotten three new superpowers. . . . We can literally remember anything, we can talk to anyone on earth instantly for free, and we can process huge amounts of data.

The rush of information came running in like a waterfall, filling me with the thought that hatred has a poor shelf life but that hope and love can limp along together forever.

No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)

Media is an assemblage of tools with which to expand an audience's conception of what "the world" is to such and extent that their own lives and capabilities seem utterly insignificant; a means of psychological warfare by which people are overloaded with information and desensitized to their own and others' suffering; the sum of all means by which human beings reduce the infinite complexity of reality to a dead-end maze of abstractions.

I used to read three newspapers every morning. Three.

I used to read three newspapers every morning. Three." Her voice was softer now so as not to disturb the baby. "You know where I get all my news now? Fucking Oprah." Her expression was rueful, but also resigned, her fingers making small circles on the baby's

When you're speaking to HR, no matter how friendly they may seem, you're still speaking to an agent of the corporation, with all that this implies. The very fact that you've chosen to give the information to an agent of the company means the information belongs to the company.

Apologists extend the broadest possible latitude to sources they agree with, yet impose the most stringent demands on sources of information the apologists dislike.

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

The Internet is pushing us - in good ways and in bad - to realize that the official version of events shouldn't always be trusted or accepted without question.

All these social media sites allow us to confuse truth and popularity. That has to be fixed. Because every normal citizen has a right to know what is factual versus what is amplified by good actors or bad actors.

There are many benefits to a sports entity breaking news directly to their recipients: the entity has full control over the message and how it is shared versus previously relying on a media outlets to translate or distribute as they choose. Also, there's no quicker place for valuable information to spread than Twitter.

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.

One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, because it's powered by a mass of humans versus a machine that has to go out and crawl and find the information and then determine its relevance mathematically.