Quotes About Information

now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all through the viewer with such speed that the machine was actually rocking on the table. (Several other researchers, with the frowns of elephants disturbed at their feeding, had gathered up their own materials and moved

I Googled it all." Dortmunder had heard of this; some other nosey parker way to mind everybody else's business.

The growth of poetry is a counterforce--and a response--to our culture of numbers and information, of digits and commerce. We read and write poems so that our psyches can speak to each other with intelligence in the language of feeling, acknowledging the multiplicity and contradiction of each human life.

An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more books than just about anyone in Idaville, and he never forgot what he read.

Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.

Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I file this away under Misc. Facts about M.

Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.

I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

How do you know all this?" "I'm a fucking librarian.

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and avoids information and interpretations that contradict prior beliefs.

Can I ask you something?' Will says and I say 'Sure, ask me something.' 'How do you know all this?' 'I'm a fucking librarian

Sinclair was even more impassioned. He owned large estates in Caithness and in the 1790s he compiled his detailed Statistical Account of Scotland, a compendium of information on geography, economy and society and history that would eventually grow to twenty-one volumes. Putting the new theories

Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

We are not just information processors, we are meaning makers.

Understanding statistics about the risks and benefits of a treatment is called "health literacy." It