Quotes About Information

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Science blogs bore me. When everyone is an expert, no one is an expert.

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.