Information Quotes

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you.

Information upon points of practical politics.

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

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

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.

Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.

What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information?

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.

I think if you use Twitter and social media as your main source of information you are an idiot, but I think most people who use it know better, so I kind of enjoy it.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.

We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

Information is moving - you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

In tactics, no information is better than too much....because at some point the players stop reading and stop thinking.

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.

You want to know as much information as possible because it helps you make more informed decisions, but that's not always possible. There are a lot of different factors surrounding it.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

Content pays an ongoing information annuity that other forms of marketing simply do not.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.