Quotes About Information

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

En el corazón de las redes sociales está el intercambio de información personal." Los usuarios están felices de poder "revelar detalles íntimos de sus vidas íntimas", "de dejar asentada información verdadera" e "intercambiar fotografías".

Estas tendencias patológicas (y sobre todo de despilfarro innecesario) del crecimiento exponencial de la producción de bienes y servicios podrían ser diagnosticadas a tiempo —vale decir, reconocidas por lo que son, e incluso inspirar medidas curativas o preventivas— si no fuera por la existencia de otro fenómeno de crecimiento exponencial que desemboca en un exceso de información.

En la sociedad de la información, es crucial la capacidad de protegerse de ese 99.99% de datos que uno no desea.

It is sterile and dangerous to believe that one dominates the entire world thanks to the Internet when one does not have enough culture to filter good information from bad information for consumption, all of them in competition for the unbearably fleeting and distracted attention of potential customers, striving to capture that attention beyond the blink of an eye.

Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living . What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.

The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious experience, for example, it is not a thing that imposes itself on man but a spiritual presence. 5 What is retained in the soul is the moment of insight rather than the place where the act came to pass. A moment of insight is a fortune, transporting us beyond the confines of measured time.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

The thing about quotes on the Internet is that you never know if they are genuine.

Always be wary of quotes on the internet.

Let the people know the facts, and the country will be safe

People named Jon tend to be highly susceptible to false information online and tend to believe whatever already lines up with their worldview.

The problem with internet quotes is that you cannot always depend on their accuracy.

As Arianna Huffington has put it: "A world of too much data, too many choices, too many possibilities and too little time is forcing us to decide what we value."2

Every night, the TV news is like a nautre hike through the Book of Revelation.

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

the average citizen now has near-instantaneous access to information about events in every nation on earth.

More data flows into the building in a single day than mankind as a whole would have generated in the twenty-three centuries between the death of Socrates and the invention of the telephone.

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place.

But ma'am must have been briefed, surely?' 'Of course,' said the Queen, 'but briefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. Aided by a librarian who can bring domain knowledge and people knowledge and access to information to bear.

Ma qualcuno l'avrà pure ragguagliata, Maestà?. Certamente, disse la regina ma ragguagliare non è leggere. Anzi, è l'esatto contrario. Il ragguaglio è succinto, concreto e pertinente. La lettura è disordinata, dispersiva e sempre invitante. Il ragguaglio esaurisce la questione, la lettura la apre.