Quotes About Information

Again, it's what you know more than what you buy. Investing is not buying. It's more a case of knowing.

Ninety percent of the population buys TV sets, and only about 10 percent buy business books.

In the Information Age, quality information is our most important asset.

Land was wealth 300 years ago. So the person who owned the land owned the wealth. Later, wealth was in factories and production, and America rose to dominance. The industrialist owned the wealth. Today, wealth is in information. And the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

You do you have to be curious about a lot; you have to read your newspapers. If you know too much... that's dangerous.

Like the deepest secrets in a psychoanalysis, our lives stay hidden, harboring our precious information like a piece of decaying food behind a major molar in our country's maw

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Louis Wu, react. Louis answered. You've started something you can't stop. You've attacked two war fleets, three if you count the Fleet of Worlds. Political structures get old and die, Bram, but information never gets lost anymore. Storage is too good.

We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.

I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect it to be a monster. No one ever calls me in if it's just a stabbing, or a hit-and-run. I don't spend a lot of time trying to come up with nice, normal explanations. It means I get to ignore a lot of theories.

Many of us may not know too much about our characters, but we tell the reader altogether too much.

One must know a great many unimportant things in order to know those few things which are important.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?