Information Quotes

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my...

Information wants to be free.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify qui...

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbi...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and eff...

The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is ...

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is...

In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence ...

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with...

The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you...

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in som...

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a s...

But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...

Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Interne...

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what...

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to informat...

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way ...

What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and t...

...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them withou...

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we wer...

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to eve...

Information is not knowledge.

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve o...

She had argued for a broad interpretation, which imposed a duty to answer questions truthfully, and ...

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to sui...

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...

There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can ...

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and su...

The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets...

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information mo...

a typical chromosomal DNA molecule in a human being is composed of about five billion pairs of nucle...

For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman...

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a weddi...

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the pr...

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama....

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of ...

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get t...

In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you sta...

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

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out k...

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything...

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever le...

I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The in...

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose sel...

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and ...

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It di...

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing ...

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence...

They still have negligent auditing, they still have things going for a walk, and they have no idea w...

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpre...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tome...

It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals.

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a...

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wa...

...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, a...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later...

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information ab...

The private sector is the key player in cyber security. Private sector companies are the primary vic...

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot...

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a ...

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the bus...

We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober...

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to ...

My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ...

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn som...

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, mor...

Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Cat...

A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact ...

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can ma...

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it ...

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing to...

If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we s...

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...