Information Quotes - page 2

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo. (J. Edgar Hoover)
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson
In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
Daniel Kahneman
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
James Tiptree, Jr
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
It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
Hans Blix
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson
Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.
Edward R. Murrow
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Pauline Kael
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.
Seth Lloyd
While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
Mark Hyman, M.D.
I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
Gerald Scarfe
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.
Etty Hillesum
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
Elinor Ostrom
Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
Merton Miller
So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices. (Merton Miller)
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
Anna C. Brackett
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.
Paulo Freire
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.
Georges Cuvier