Information Quotes - Page 2

I'm not really opposed to people changing their minds. I'm much more concerned with people who never change their minds no matter what new information is available.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

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.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.

Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

There is no right way to knit; there is no wrong way to knit. So if anybody kindly tells you that what you are doing is "wrong," don't take umbrage; they mean well. Smile submissively, and listen, keeping your disagreement on an entirely mental level. They may be right, in this particular case, and even if not, they may drop off pieces of information which will come in very handy if you file them away carefully in your brain for future reference.

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.