177 quotes found
“The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.”
“The most common definition of [the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowl...”
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
“The most common definition [of the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowl...”
“To bankrupt a fool, give him information.”
“What we actually know firsthand is minuscule: the feel of the spring air on our skin, our own private daydreams and phobias. Outside of these tiny warrens of private knowledge, we have to depend on...”
“People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle informat...”
“Imagine a weary sailor coming home to port in the midst of a brutal storm. Along the horizon he sees the burning lights of dozens of lighthouses. And yet he knows from experience that some are so o...”
“Time isn't just a quantity. It's information.”
“You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but Im telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people arent reading it.”
“Theres no going back, and theres no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.”
“Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.”
“There is only one limitation to our progress and that is our lack of information.”
“...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.”
“IT IS A KNOWING. YOU BEHAVE LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF AN INFORMATION YOU HAVE. I WILL BEHAVE LIKE YOU IF I HAD THAT INFORMATION.In the beginning was the INFORMATION, and the INFORMATION was with God, an...”
“We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.”
“[W]hen a message is squeezed through a twenty-second news spot, so much can be lost that what is left will fail to move anyone enough to make them turn off the set and actually do something. Meanwh...”
“The really strange thing about this is that it was one of the Fog Facts.That is, it was not a secret. It was known. But it was not known. That is, if you asked a knowledgeable journalist, or politi...”
“Keep in mind that when we limit our exposure to information, or when information itself is scarce, our picture of reality suffers. We become oblivious to both opportunities and hazards. Trends beco...”
“We either need an overwhelming force advantage, or we need more information.""Reinforcements cut into our bounty, remember?""It's unanimous. We need more information.”
