Information Quotes - Page 18

All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.

To form a strong opinion, you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. You have to have access to all the relevant information. You gotta be literally an expert.

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information

We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.

Information is the currency of democracy. It's denial must always be suspect.

A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

If my son or your son handled classified information the way that Hillary Clinton did, they'd be court marshaled.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.