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Information Quotes - Page 24

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.315, Ballantine Books

Too much information about nothing.

Song: Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart

To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price.

Benjamin Graham, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, Financial Analysts Research Foundation (1974). “The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974”

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

"The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.109, Da Capo Press

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

"They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

"Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.