Quotes About Information

There is more information in one edition of the New York Times than the average person in 17th-century England would have come across in a lifetime.

A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB

Horizontal vision allows someone to assimilate and weave together seemingly unconnected bits of information. It allows an investigator to see what others do not see, and to make leaps of connectivity and creativity. Probing vertically, going deeper and deeper into something, creates new information. Sometimes what one finds will shine brilliantly enough to illuminate the whole world.

Yet of this massive flow of information no more than about 40 bits per second actually reaches consciousness. We are, in other words, conscious of only a trivial slice of all the information coming into the brain for processing.

We process more information in the lower half of our visual field, because there is normally more to see on the ground than in the sky. We group objects into units of three or four in order to perceive numbers rather than count them, a process known as subitising, that comes in handy when assessing the number of opponents in battle.

An uneven distribution of information hinders negotiations and limits what can be contracted. Information transmission requires devices that ensure the communications are reliable. Another such issue is that a market works well only if people can trust each other. Trust requires mechanisms to bolster it since, regrettably, not everyone is inherently trustworthy.

A workable platform has five elements: information flows smoothly; property rights are protected; people can be trusted to live up to their promises; side effects on third parties are curtailed; and competition is fostered.

In other words, certain kinds of transaction costs have been lowered by the internet: the cost of acquiring information, the time, effort, and money needed to learn what is available where and at what price.

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.

I think the educational value is what comes first. I've always thought that the most effective tools we have for disseminating information, i.e. education, is television and film.

A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.

Don't freak out until you know the facts.

I love social media. I love the connectivity it provides, the creativity it allows, and the breathtaking wealth of information we all have at our fingertips because of it.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Content is the emotional and informational bridge between commerce and consumer.

Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

The function of the brain is to reduce all the available information and lock us into a limited experience of the world. LSD frees us from this restriction and opens us to a much larger experience.

And I like to convey my feelings, my emotions, my experience, the information I have to public use, public opinion.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.