Information Flow Quotes

#1. 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.

Vint Cerf

#2. Digital means flow: data flow, information flow, knowledge flow, and mind flow.

Pearl Zhu

#3. Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China.. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

Bill Gates

#4. See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Donald Rumsfeld

#5. It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

Mark Zuckerberg

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 The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

Barack Obama

#7. The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

Anatol Rapoport

#8. At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

Bernie Sanders

#9. The biggest improvement in the flow of information in America in our lifetimes is that no single group controls the news anymore.

Peggy Noonan

#10. As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

Euvin Naidoo

#11. My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

Kajol

#12. Central tenets of the Hacker Ethic: the free flow of information, particularly information that helped fellow hackers understand, explore, and build systems.

Steven Levy

#13. Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Tom Lantos

#14. Luxuriate in a constant flow of information, picking out whatever I wanted to know.

Garth Nix

#15. That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

Newt Gingrich

#16. The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting ...

Daniel Ellsberg

#17. The human mind is a relational and embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information.

Daniel J. Siegel

#18. Public relations is at best promotion or manipulation, at worst evasion and outright deception. What it is never about is a free flow of information.

Heather Brooke

#19. There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

Rumi

#20. Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Danah Boyd

#21. it can be beneficial to disconnect from certain sources of information and streams of content so that you can cultivate a more curated flow of inspiration.

Todd Henry

#22. If all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

Lynne McTaggart

#23. Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

Deepak Chopra

#24. It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

Lev Grossman

#25. In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.

Deepak Chopra

#26. Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

Robert Anton Wilson

#27. The Patriot Act has increased the flow of information within our government and it has helped break up terrorist cells in the United States of America. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act
the Patriot Act.

George W. Bush

#28. You will notice that there may be specific times of day or even situations where your spiritual information will flow to you most easily.

Catherine Carrigan

#29. An innovative mind allows "the creative flow" to open up for information abundance.

Pearl Zhu

#30. Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.

Bryant McGill

#31. The second industrial revolution doesn't present us, as the first did, with overwhelming images of rolling mills or molten steel, but rather with bits of information that flow, as electrical impulses, through circuits. We still have machines made of steel, but they now obey bits that are weightless.

Italo Calvino

#32. Acquiring of wisdom is a function of inquisitiveness for information and keenness for learning. Plenty of resource and the gravity of flow will ensure a momentum good enough for learning.

Priyavrat Thareja

#33. Communism in Cuba will collapse sooner or later because you can't control the free flow of information. Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans.

Lech Walesa

#34. Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Ian McEwan

#35. If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

Al Franken

#36. In the past, censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the 21st century, censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information. People just don't know what to pay attention to, and they often spend their time investigating and debating side issues.

Yuval Noah Harari

#37. People are leaving trails everywhere they go; automated web crawlers tell you an awful lot about their social activities. The flow of information in fundamentally unobtrusive ways into social control organisations has risen dramatically.

Whitfield Diffie

#38. It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

John Poindexter

#39. Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.

Thomas Jefferson

#40. Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

Martha Beck

#41. When we are playing [games], we are stretching our emotional expressive ranges, loosening up our biochemical flow of information, getting unstuck, and healing our feelings.

Candace Pert

#42. Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Adrian Bejan

#43. 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.

Ian Bremmer

#44. I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

Mark Zuckerberg

#45. A single piece of information designed to flow through the entire ecosystem of news will create more value than a piece of information sealed up in a glass box.

Steven Johnson

#46. At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

Erik Qualman

#47. Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.

Julian Assange

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

Dave Eggers

#49. One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

Alan Perlis

#50. We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering.

Michael Chertoff

#51. Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

George Clinton

#52. I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It's the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

Marianne Williamson

#53. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.

Christopher Hitchens

#54. At the core of every successful conversation lies the free flow of relevant information.

Kerry Patterson

#55. Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Jayni Chase

#56. BP today finally managed to almost completely stop the flow of information.

Bill Maher

#57. Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

Bruce Coville

#58. 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.

Vince McMahon