Information Quotes - Page 13

• I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Jobs, Important, Today

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

  Edward Tufte

  Art, Common, Intense

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• I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Ideas, Filters

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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• Information consists of differences that make a difference.

  Gregory Bateson

  Differences, Making A Difference

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• The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.

  E. W. Scripps

  Country, Order, Class

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• A reporter is no better than his source of information.

  William O. Douglas

  Source, Reporters

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• The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

  Thomas Merton

  Blessing, Race, Together

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Way, Nobody Knows

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• Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

  Barack Obama

  Library, Truth Is

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Loss, Orderly

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• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Successful, Government, Touching

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• For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

  Clifford Stoll

  Information Is Power, Years, Community

  Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books

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• It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.

  Hal Varian

  Book, Technology, Uc Berkeley

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• The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Distance, Mean, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.135, Coventry House Publishing

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• Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it.

  Barack Obama

  America, Enemy, World

  "Guantánamo, Six Years Later" by Shayana Kadidal, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2008.

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control.

  John von Neumann

  Technology, Organization, Energy

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Data, Anxiety, Black

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• One of your many jobs as manager is information conduit, and the rules are deceptively simple: for each piece of information you see, you must correctly determine who on your team needs that piece of information to do their job.

  Rands

  Jobs, Team, Simple

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• Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Worry, Focus, Gains

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• The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

  Bernard Baruch

  Wall, Believe, England

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• I always felt that the musician's job was to provide an alternative source of information.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Jobs, Musician, Alternatives

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• To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Trying, Acting

  In J. B. MacMaster 'History of the People of the U.S.' (1883-1913) vol. 2, ch. 13, p. 586

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• I recognize the need to provide the press - and, through you, the American people - with information to the fullest extent possible. In our democracy, the work of the Pentagon press corps is important, defending our freedom and way of life is what this conflict is about, and that certainly includes freedom of the press.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Democracy, Important

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