Information Quotes - Page 36

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

The more information you have, the better you're able to have success.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus.

America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message

Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

Most of us are only willing to call 5% of our present information into question any one point.

There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.

Don’t damage computer systems you break into (including crashing them); don’t change the information in those systems (except for altering logs to cover your tracks); and share information.

All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.