Information Quotes - Page 20

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.

Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.

I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

Information is the hardest currency.

Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

When I was a child, science fiction was the first source I've found for information. Science fiction was a very very low cultural stream in those days. It was completly below the radar and no one bothered to censurate it.

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

I'm not Jesus, but I have very valuable information.