Information Quotes - Page 33

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences it in a useful way.

The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

I think the search engines are the new equivalent of publishing: an enabler of information.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.

It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

My attention is the most valuable resource I have. I can protect it with an information diet.

The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

Information is moving - you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.

Information doesn't kill you.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

To know how to structure the joke perfectly so that the narrative information is given in the right tempo, in just the right dose - it sometimes takes quite a lot of work. It seems easy when you hear the joke.