Quotes About Information

A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh.

The best type of government comes from a government that is scrutinized by the people when they have true information about our governments, major corporations, other power actors in society.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Knowledge has the power to help us avoid making bad choices that produce bad results.

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

Having more data does not always give you the power to make better decisions.

Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

If Sam had been caught passing classified information on a private email server, she would be in jail. Simple as that.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation before investigation.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

Science is not and cannot be a quest for a complete knowledge of the universe. Rather, it is a process whereby certain information is selected as being more relevant to human aims and understanding.

Past generations were most concerned with the material side of creation: How could something come from nothing? Cosmologists now recognize another, informational side of creation. Creation of a world entails above all information. The state of everything—everywhere—at every time—must be defined. The most economical way to specify such information is through a complexity-generating recursion of physical law.