Quotes About Information

#1. Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Garry Trudeau

#2. Well, all information looks like noise until you break the code.

Neal Stephenson

#3. The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either.

Jim White

#4. This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.

Saxby Chambliss

#5. The progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of reliable information, gained by chance or insight, from one set of men to their successors.

Gene Wolfe

#6. What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the part of faculties to indicate the life values of their subjects.

Joseph Campbell

#7. Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

Michael Arrington

#8. Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#9. Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

Walther Bothe

#10. How so much information is stored on this planet??

Deyth Banger

#11. information costs," is not the way to maximize one's investment. The true maximizer would determine just how much information seeking was the amount needed to lead to a very good decision.

Barry Schwartz

#12. I'm pissed at myself. I just spent forty-five minutes Googling my ex-girlfriends and ex-crushes. That's just information I don't need ... This is an unhealthy addiction ... a waste of my time and brain space.

A. J. Jacobs

#13. People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

Heather Brooke

#14. Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

Helen Thomas

#15. Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

Rick Warren

#16. There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

Seth Lloyd

#17. Capitalism has gotten hip to the fact that for all our talk of an information economy, what we really have is an attentional economy, if the term "economy" applies to what is scarce and therefore valuable.

Matthew B. Crawford

#18. Imagine an organization where the physical plant honors the mission, celebrates the employees, shares information, holds people accountable, shapes the outside world's view and helps drive performance. That would be an organization which uses visual management.

Stewart Liff

#19. Why is it that there was always a unit on history, math, science and god knows what other useless, totally forgettable information you taught those seventh graders year after year, but never any unit on death? No exercises, no workbooks, no final exams on the only subject that matters?

Nicole Krauss

#20. Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Scott Adams

#21. When we humans speak, we are not merely communicating information but attempting to make an impression and achieve a goal.

Francine Prose

#22. In the end, maybe the correct language would be how the fact of putting four edges around a collection of information or facts transforms it. A photograph is not what was photographed, it's something else.

Garry Winogrand

#23. lecture notes are a way of transmitting information from the lecturer to the student without it passing through the minds of either one of them.

Kevin Carey

#24. There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.

Ben Carson

#25. Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

DJ Spooky

#26. Tara...seemed to digest gossip as voraciously as an owl, regurgitating it in the form of little pellets of dubious information.

Erin Saldin

#27. I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Al Franken

#28. The idea that Jesus rose on the 'third day' was originally a theological construct, not a historical piece of information.

Bart D. Ehrman

#29. Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

Robert Breault

#30. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

Bill Gates

#31. If anybody normally has a 45 minute conference call about something, I'm 15 minutes late and then I'm out 15 minutes before everybody else, and I cut to the key information and I move on. I learned that from my dad and guys like Jason Blum, who know how to do that.

Mark Duplass

#32. universe. The Big Bang may be the beginning of the universe, or it may be a discontinuity in which information about the earlier history of the universe was destroyed.

Anonymous

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

Pearl Zhu

#34. Hey, the ubiquitous Leak-Cam is to 2010 as the bottom-of-the-screen news ticker was to late 2001: What you're seeing beneath the news anchor or talking head may not actually include any new information, but you feel like you're watching something dramatic.

Jim Geraghty

#35. Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information that would require large search costs by individual buyers and sellers in the absence of an organized market.

Douglass North

#36. The cover, title, the name of the author, how the work starts, the name of characters all this is important information which should be gather as for conclusion.

Deyth Banger

#37. The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information.

Marvin Bower

#38. What woman has ever stopped by a want of information? She felt. And despised him for not acting in accordance with her feelings.

John Le Carre

#39. In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand.

Agnes Kamara-umunna

#40. Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.

Baltasar Gracian

#41. People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

Francis Collins

#42. There's a hunger in me that always wants to be creating and orating, telling people something and giving them information and getting feedback. There are so many questions that I'm trying to ask, and I'm still so far from being done saying what I gotta say.

Chance The Rapper

#43. You certainly are a repository of useless information. How do you know all that?' David asked, with more amusement than admiration.
'I have a mind like a magpie's, easily distracted by interesting odds and ends,' Ramses admitted.

Elizabeth Peters

#44. Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

Dave Barry

#45. Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Mitchell Kapor

#46. I support safeguarding users' personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers' privacy.

Marsha Blackburn

#47. The Internet is this whole new world that allows everyone to communicate and exchange information and be a perfect marketplace and just accelerate everybody's lives. So, for me, the Internet was the greatest invention of mankind so far.

Kim Dotcom

#48. What frustrates me about some high-concept shows is that they don't give you information until sweeps, but 'Jericho's' audience will get a large piece of the puzzle every week.

Sprague Grayden

#49. Calm, focused, undistracted, the linear mind is being pushed aside by a new kind of mind that wants and needs to take in and dole out information in short, disjointed, often overlapping bursts - the faster, the better.

Nicholas Carr

#50. The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

Nick Cave

#51. The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.

Adam Davidson

#52. When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#53. Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Albert Einstein

#54. Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.

Jakob Nielsen

#55. Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

Shoshana Zuboff

#56. Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.

Tristan Perich

#57. Tobias asked.
"Weird? Weird?" Marco crowed. "The talking bird wants to know if getting information on
the location of an alien from a whale, that you've just saved from sharks, by turning into
dolphins ... You're suggesting that's weird?

Katherine Applegate

#58. ... the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard ...

Ben Carson

#59. You could have learned from a book, they are for all intents and purposes quite safe. What one does with the information gathered however is a different matter altogether.

S. Vagus

#60. It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.

Ernie Banks

#61. Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#62. A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

Debasish Mridha

#63. The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

Hans Rosling

#64. Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.

Stephen Jay Gould

#65. The things that matter in this country have been reduced in choice, there are two political parties, there are a handful insurance companies, there are six or seven information centers.. but if you want a bagel there are 23 flavors. Because you have the illusion of choice!

George Carlin

#66. The N2-20 is a military device and according to the last article I read it computes at 900 milicycles per millisecond. Though that was two months ago, so the information may not be reliable any longer." "If

Katina Vader

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

John Updike

#68. What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.

Robert Stone

#69. The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.

Robert Kirkman

#70. As an actor, I think every moment in your life is giving you a new set of tools. You're constantly absorbing new information that you can put back onto the screen.

Charlie Day

#71. When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

John Maynard Keynes

#72. I've got tons of irreplaceable information inside the soul of this computer.

Terry McMillan

#73. A tree's most important means of staying connected to other trees is a "wood wide web" of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods.

Tim Flannery

#74. An investigation's proper course cannot be mapped in advance. It follows each piece of information forward to the next one.

Ben H. Winters

#75. To derive the most useful information from multiple sources of evidence, you should always try to make these sources independent of each other.

Daniel Kahneman

#76. Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.

Kanye West

#77. Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." ... But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

Henry A. Kissinger

#78. I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

Tucker Carlson

#79. If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

Mads Mikkelsen

#80. I wonder if those in Silicon Valley who shave stones to their essence and put them in machines of memory perhaps already know somehow that stones have always managed information.

Dick Russell

#81. It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

Iris Chang

#82. When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

Ed Begley Jr.

#83. The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.

Jerome K. Jerome

#84. 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

#85. The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.

John Medina

#86. Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,

Agatha Christie

#87. There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.

Irwin Redlener

#88. Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

James A.C. Brown

#89. I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

Larry Flynt

#90. Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.

Joseph E. Ledoux

#91. Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

Omar Bongo

#92. Information is closely associated with uncertainty. Uncertainty, in turn, can be measured by counting the number of possible messages. If only one message is possible, there is no uncertainty and thus no information.

James Gleick

#93. When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

Diane Ackerman

#94. It's not for everybody to tweet, it's for everybody to follow. The more people figure that out, they see it's RSS-plus. It's literally the place you check for information.

Bill Gurley

#95. learning helps us increase our store of usable information and lower risk.

Venkatesh G. Rao

#96. A computer cannot manufacture new information. That's the difference between our brain and a computer.

Chris Prentiss

#97. I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.

W.G. Sebald

#98. I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

Pia Zadora

#99. The first encounter report had come from some weak-tea heiligenschein type charting the edges of the quantum information paradox in realities with anisotropic causalities. (Kids these days. Whatever happened to popping down to Earth to play burning bush to a roving band of shepherds?)

Ian Tregillis

#100. The urge to want some bit of information to be true often clouds our ability to assess why that information may be false.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson