Quotes About Information

Magozzi was still smiling, which seemed absolutely inappropriate given the information he was about to deliver, but when had life ever been anything but a sketch in light and dark? Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it's there.

If you tell too much too soon, you'll overload them and they'll give up. If you confuse them, they'll ignore the message altogether.

However, in asymmetrical warfare, whether or not "demands" are met (i.e., whether you "win" or "lose" in the conventional sense) is secondary to perception of the intangibles in the globalized world of tweets and instantaneous information and disinformation. Hamas

The Agency's job is keeping secrets. You could ask about the weather, and they would neither confirm or deny that there IS weather.

All, I find is Google. ?#?iampm?

it is disconcerting to learn that while 73 percent of Americans can name the Three Stooges, only 42 percent can name the three branches of government.6

Information is our environment, our niche, and as we are complex animals we constantly transform that niche, sometimes in ways that make it possible to acquire even more information from our surroundings.

Truth and information are not the same thing! And neither are reality and state of existence!

Information can neither be created nor destroyed – it's accessible or it's inaccessible, but it is. If you have known it, and you can find the tiniest remnant of association, then you will know it again.

One annual report is worth 10 speeches by a Federal Reserve chairman.

When groupthink occurs, the group isolates itself from the outside world and the information it contains.

What this tells me is that facts are only the smallest components of memory.

Knowledge is important because not only does it help dispel fears, it also helps us make rational, informed decisions about our health and well-being.

Any idiot can put up a website.

I don't think you're supposed to be able to get at that information," said Leslie. "Don't look," said Goldstein, peering over Charles's shoulder. "We don't know anything about illegal hacking." He whistled cheerily.

Too much knowledge can make you paranoid all the time

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

and they don't have to know about a lot of things that ordinary mortals just don't have to know about!

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist," said journalist Clare Boothe Luce, "is that the pessimist is usually better informed.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

I have two maxims that I believe, dear girl. One, if you can control yourself, you can control others. Two, if you can control information, you can control others.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

This planet is information' the Mayor says. 'All the time, never-ceasing. Information it wants to give you, information it wants to take from you to share with everyone else. And I think you can respond to that in two ways. You can control how much you give it, like you an I have done [...]' 'Or you can open yourself to it completely,; I say.