Quotes About Information

By some estimates, the data-storage curve is rocketing upward at the rate of 800 percent per year. Organizations are collecting so much data they're overwhelmed. Families are no different; we have more things on disk, more photos, more items stored than we'll ever have to allocate time for. "Since Kodachrome made way for jpeg, pictures accumulate on hard drives like wet leaves in a gutter." (Jim Lewis, author of "The King is Dead")

Each of us was born in an era when complexity has become the hallmark of our existence.

With each passing second, more information becomes newly available than you could ingest, at typical viewing and reading speed, in the next eighty years.

I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest.

Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course.

There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.

She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate of nations were at stake in every instance.

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.

no hay nada que no tenga explicación si uno tiene acceso a una biblioteca con buenos libros de referencia.

So, did you need to hear that? Did you really need to know more?' Xas asked. 'Yes. It's always better to know more.' 'God help you,' Xas said with feeling.

I got that familiar mania - there is information somewhere here, and I can find it, I have to. A good librarian is not so different from a prospector, her whole brain a divining rod. She walks to books and stands and wonders: here? Is the answer here? The same blind faith in finding, even when hopeless. If someone caught me when I was in the throes of tracking something elusive, I would have told them: but it's out there. I can feel it.

You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration. 'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isn't there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google.

Elisabeth skims the day's paper on her phone to catch up on the usual huge changes there've been in the last half hour.

Once it would have been a year's worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.

All of this information flashes through George's head in that fraction of a second it takes to do the single swivel round towards H in her mother's chair and say the words: It's my mother's study. Cool, H says.

But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff

And people wouldn't look up the details. They never look up the details.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

I was a hoarder, a collector of facts that I stored in my brain for later use, not knowing what this use might be.

As in the case of the economy, an 'invisible hand' will often be a better cultivator of ideas and allocator of effort. The challenge for intelligence officials in the Information Age is to understand how to integrate these indirect mechanisms into their operations

Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?

Some of your colleagues stress the public's right to know, and they forget the people they want to 'speak out' are a part of that public.