Information Quotes

Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Good information is the best medicine.

I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.

A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.

As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.

The most successful people in life have the best information

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Information on UFOs, including sighting reports, has been and is still being officially withheld.

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.