Information Quotes - Page 4

• The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Technology, Fog

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission". Interview with Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

  Herbert Spencer

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Science

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• There's so much information that there is disinformation.

  Ferran Adria

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• One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Media, States

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• Information wants to be free.

  Stewart Brand

  Want, Internet, Free Speech

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 18 Nov. 1984

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• Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Success, Failure

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• Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.

  William Bernbach

  Mind, Marketing, Desire

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• I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.

  Sissela Bok

  Running, Believe, Government

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.179, Vintage

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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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• The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.

  John Peers

  Needs, Peers, Want

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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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• Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

  Grace Hopper

  Balance, Process, Sheets

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• Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

  Sivananda

  Brain, Mind, Use

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• There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

  Lisa Ling

  Black And White, Media, Cnn

  "Lisa Ling On Tackling Tough Topics". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2012.

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving.

  Ray Bradbury

  Moving, Thinking, Facts

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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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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• I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.

  Daryl Hannah

  Inspiration, Easy, Lifestyle

  "Hollywood star takes eco-activism to Web". Interview with Vanessa McGrady, www.nbcnews.com. Jun 1, 2006.

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• Your hands may be full of money and your brain full of information but if your heart is empty, your life is very empty.

  T. B. Joshua

  Heart, Hands, Brain

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• We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

  Howard Schultz

  Technology, People, Behavior

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• I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

  Doug E. Fresh

  Powerful, Father, Kids

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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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• An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

  Benjamin Carson

  Knowledge, Learning, Helping Others

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• I find more and more executives less and less well informed about the outside world, if only because they believe that the data on the computer printouts are ipso facto information.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Data, World

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