Quotes About Information

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

Data is not intelligence.

I think the intelligence I get is darn good intelligence.

How do we prevent attacks? How do we protect our people?I think we've got to have an intelligence surge, where we are looking for every scrap of information.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.