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Information Quotes - Page 23

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.134, Octagon Press Ltd

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.146, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

The audience requires not information but drama.

David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

Information is the religion of the modern world.

David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.390, Penguin

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books