Information Age Quotes

• We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion.

  Stephen Coonts

  Age, Information, Opinion

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• Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

  Peter Cochrane

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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• The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

  Pete du Pont

  New York, Sea, Age

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• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

  William Pollard

  People, Decision, Benefits

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• In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.

  Tim Bishop

  Block, Cutting, Innovation

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• Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Technology, Opportunity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

  Paul Hawken

  Technology, People, Age

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

  Paul Hawken

  Age, Information, Transformation

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

  Stephanie Mills

  Age, Doe, May

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.138, Island Press

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• Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

  Roger Kimball

  Data, Age, Information

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• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Thinking, Challenges

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

  Walter Wriston

  Moving, Land, People

  "The Future of Money". Interview with Thomas A. Bass, www.wired.com. October 1, 1996.

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• It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Knowledge, Data, Essentials

  "Humanity will survive information deluge - Sir Arthur C Clarke" by Nalaka Gunawardene, OneWorld South Asia, December 5, 2003.

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• In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

  Joseph Nye

  Army, Winning, Age

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• If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

  David Gelernter

  Age, Information, Wells

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• We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.

  Al Gore

  Country, Technology, Bridges

  Al Gor's Foreign Policy Speech to the International Press Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, www.c-span.org. May 1, 2000.

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• In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Kings, Queens, People

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Dec 21, 2012

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• Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

  Richard Dooling

  Running, Technology, Suspicion

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• I think that the Information Age is great, but there's a downside to it obviously as well, and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.

  Josh Hopkins

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act."

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Knowledge, Positive Thinking

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.

  Meredith Brooks

  Thinking, Creative, Age

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• A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.

  Kalle Lasn

  Dream, Fashion, Philosophy

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Fire, Data Collection

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