Quotes About Information

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.

I'm, like, an Internet fiend. I will research anything and everything that pops into my head.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

In the early '90s, well under 5 percent of the global population was online.

We're assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

I think there are two aspects to smart environments. One is information embedded in places and things. The other is location awareness, so that devices we carry around know where we are. When you combine those two, you get a lot of possibilities.

It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught - e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can't manage without a helping hand.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

If 'The New York Times' didn't exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. 'The Huffington Post' and everything else is predicated on 'The New York Times'. It's a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information - and her confidence.

At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

Social media has given us the world at our fingertips every morning. And we watch it change, live. In the morning, in the old days, we'd read the 'Post,' and that was what we had.

When you see me up on a breaking-news story, it is not good news. I'm not about to give you the secret to my mom's sweet potato pie.

Clinton set up an entire secret, unsecured communications structure outside of the government she was charged with serving at the highest level; she was the Secretary of State. Classified information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially bring harm to our country - and many in service to our country - was available to be appropriated.

As a consultant at McKinsey, I learned the value of data and the ability to shape that information into an answer.

I like to consume information. I like to learn.

I consume media in a very frenetic, overtweeting way.

I consume the news daily. I'm not avoiding it.

I'm a big consumer of media and content online.

I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.