Top 100 Information Is Quotes
#1. Information is currency ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.
Lynda Obst
#2. There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
Jane Leavy
#3. In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
Giles Foden
#4. What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science - information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won't.
Archibald MacLeish
#6. Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?
Harold Bloom
#7. Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires
Tobsha Learner
#8. All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.
Terence McKenna
#9. Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.
Peter Russell
#10. The thing about pumping people for information is that you wind up telling them more than you want to in the hope of getting them to reveal what you want to know.
Rudy Josephs
#11. One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.
Marshall McLuhan
#13. Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.
Robert Lanza
#14. We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.
Jeff Tweedy
#17. Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.
Marty Rubin
#18. The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
Ray Kurzweil
#19. Information is acquired by being told, whereas knowledge can be acquired by thinking.
Fritz Machlup
#20. The instinctual shortcut that we take when we have "too much information" is to engage with it selectively, picking out the parts we like and ignoring the remainder, making allies with those who have made the same choices and enemies of the rest.
Nate Silver
#21. Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.
Harold Evans
#22. Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.
Susan Minot
#23. Being true to yourself involves showing and sharing emotion. The spirit that motivates most great storytellers is 'I want you to feel what I feel,' and the effective narrative is designed to make this happen. That's how the information is bound to the experience and rendered unforgettable.
Peter Guber
#24. Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
Albert Einstein
#25. The only time the press doesn't sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.
Jim Norton
#26. If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?
Arthur Curley
#27. Information is power. Information is security. Plans made with imperfect information are fatally flawed, will fail or succeed on the toss of a coin.
Ann Leckie
#28. A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.
Claud Cockburn
#29. Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.
Peter Drucker
#30. When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#31. There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom.
Rachel Caine
#33. 'Intermediary liability' means that the intermediary, a service that acts as 'intermediate' conduit for the transmission or publication of information, is held liable or legally responsible for everything its users do.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#35. Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.
Tom Stoppard
#36. Getting more information is learning, and so is coming to understand what you did not understand before. But there is an important difference between these two kinds of learning.
Mortimer J. Adler
#37. Secrets for secrets, one whisper for another. Information is very powerful. Some would die for it. Some would kill for it. How much are you willing to pay, little wingless ones?
Julie Kagawa
#38. Okay, I have internet but it's limited and here on the web the information is countless.
Deyth Banger
#39. Information is the only thing that can be lost in an imperishable universe. Mind is the only thing that truly dies.
Alan Moore
#40. New or more information is not what you need - a new plan of action is. It's time to create new behaviors and habits that are oriented away from sabotage and toward success.
Darren Hardy
#41. I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.
Curt Weldon
#42. Information is power. Information empowers. Information is powerless if not applied.
Saji Ijiyemi
#43. You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs.
Abraham Hicks
#44. An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.
David Mermin
#45. One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession," one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, "was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity ... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.
Marilyn Johnson
#46. faith that's primarily intellectual - that is, a matter of mastering information - is deceptively fragile.
Rod Dreher
#47. I think that sometimes not giving someone all the information is nearly the same as a lie. You've started on a slippery path, dear. Beware your next step. Lillian
Lisa Kleypas
#48. Organizing healthcare information is a daunting task, but it is not an impossible task. We've had people walk on the moon. This is a lot more doable.
Bill Maris
#49. In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.
Rick Ross
#50. I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.
Anne McCaffrey
#51. In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.
Mitch Kapor
#52. Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.
Ralph Nader
#53. Whereas the complexity of an object measures how complicated it is to describe, its information content measures the extent to which it describes the rest of the world. In other words, information is a measure of how much meaning complexity has.
Max Tegmark
#54. I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand, I understand that information is power, and power is, well, power, so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure, a celebrity, or a dissident.
Susan Orlean
#55. Information is key at these things: no one wants to be caught holding social stock that's about to crash.
Mohsin Hamid
#56. The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.
Jerry Pournelle
#57. In a busy world, even as information is moving so rapidly, we have to learn who to trust in that regard even as we ourselves have to become more critical of the people who we want to trust. It's a weird situation.
Alex Gibney
#58. 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
#59. What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence and more toward what might be called a utilitarian intelligence. The price of zipping among lots of bits of information is a loss of depth in our thinking.
Nicholas G. Carr
#60. The more handles one creates at the moment of learning, the more likely the information is to be assessed at a later date. The handles we can add revolve around content, timing, and environment.
John Medina
#61. ...human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.
Mette Hjort
#62. Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.
Stan Lee
#63. The problem is that faith based upon twisted information is nothing more than delusion - and delusion leads to division. It divided humanity, taking us into endless wars - separating us by race, religion, and politics.
R. Brown
#64. Knowledge is a house that must be built from the ground up. We know how to make the roof. The information is useless if we don't understand the foundations on which it is to be placed.
Nancy Farmer
#65. I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.
Rhys Ifans
#66. I spend 60 hours a week on my business but I don't work for a minute. Work is hard. But what I do - writing, speaking, researching, learning, and sharing information - is pure joy. It's what I was called to do.
Carmine Gallo
#67. Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
Victor Kiam
#68. It is vital to remember that information
in the sense of raw data
is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.
Arthur C. Clarke
#69. Information is the religion of the modern world.
David Lodge
#70. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.
Ron White
#71. The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.
James Geary
#72. Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
William Pollard
#73. We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
James E. Faust
#74. The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame
Dean Cavanagh
#75. Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all.
James Gleick
#76. The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life.
Ed Asner
#77. Wait. What? You kissed at the bonfire?" Ellen flushes and nods. "Seriously? You didn't tell me? What kind of crap best-friend rule book did you read, Ellen, because the one I've got has way different chapters as to how information is supposed to be handed over.
Anne Eliot
#78. The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
Sydney J. Harris
#79. The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
Barack Obama
#80. A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
Alain De Botton
#81. There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.
Edward De Bono
#82. What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.
Elizabeth Holmes
#83. Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.
Rinku Sen
#84. If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.
Larry Winget
#85. How so much information is stored on this planet??
Deyth Banger
#86. They [free market policies] were never based on solid empirical and theoretical foundations, and even as many of these policies were being pushed, academic economists were explaining the limitations of markets for instance, whenever information is imperfect, which is to say always.
Joseph Stiglitz
#87. Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.
Daniel Burrus
#88. Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
Yuri Milner
#90. What if only humans are real, and information is not?
Jaron Lanier
#91. It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender
Orson Scott Card
#92. The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.
Robin Ince
#93. During the decade following the discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA, the problem of translation - namely, how genetic information is used to synthesize proteins - was a central topic in molecular biology.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
#94. The dramatic news is confirmed: Che has died in combat. His belongings are described in vivid detail and other information is given that only those close to the scene could have known. The
Ernesto Che Guevara
#95. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.
Hiroyuki Nishimura
#96. Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
Arthur C. Clarke
#97. The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
Tim Berners-Lee
#98. Information is expanding daily. How to get it out visually is important.
John Maeda
#99. First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.
Jim Ramstad
#100. In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
Daniel Dennett
