Information Quotes

Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

I think the trend to control speech - and therefore thought - continues. Because of the freer flow of information now, there's more on the side of free thought.

The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.

Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.

Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.

I don't believe what the papers are saying They're just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

It's important to listen to what scientists have to say, even when it's inconvenient, especially when it's inconvenient

And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.

An index is a great leveller.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.

Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.

The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

Cortissoz was art critic of the New York Herald Tribune.

Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.Ten thousand reflectionshide the true gem.Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told.

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes like this go unchecked, who can believe anything they see on the Internet? What good would the Internet be then? If the people who control Internet web sites do not do anything, is that not an open invitation for government to step in? And does anybody want politicians to control what can go on the Internet?

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

Ideas are information taking shape.

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Don't be misled by History, or any other unreliable source.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Knowledge is information that changes somethingor somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making anindividual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.