Information Quotes - Page 5

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

The key to social engineering is influencing a person to do something that allows the hacker to gain access to information or your network.

Always revisit your decisions in the light of new knowledge and information. Don't be afraid to change.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power.

Marketing is becoming a battle based on information than on sales power.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

It from bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom...an immaterial source and explanation...that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)

Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.