Quotes About Information

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty."

Read a minimum of four good books a year, a monthly magazine like The Reader's Digest, and your daily morning and evening newspapers.

Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.

In God we trust. All others [must] have data.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Think of Instagram. Journalism will continue to exist, but communication is now visual.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.

The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world

The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.

When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.