Quotes About Information

it's funny how I'm encouraged to go to school so much, but I've learned more valuable things on google then from school.

We have no way of knowing what lays ahead for us in the future. All we can do is use the information at hand to make the best decision possible.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.

The future is not Google-able.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Nobody believes the official spokesman, but everybody trusts an unidentified source.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.