Quotes About Information

You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision.

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Information is bad for knowledge.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.