Quotes About Information

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

I'm not very computer savvy.

It used to be expensive to make things public and cheap to make them private. Now it's expensive to make things private and cheap to make them public.

Don't damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don't change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

A computer can have so much more in its brain that a human can.

I don't have any of the modern stuff. I don't have e-mail. I don't have a computer!

If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

I don't have a computer, but when I get access to one, I'm always looking myself up on Google, because it's exciting.

Honestly, I'm more into the computer, the Internet, and checking out scores or the news.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated by any intelligent, thoughtful, determined person.

not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it's often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.