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Information Quotes


"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."



"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."


"You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data."


"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."



"In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of."



"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find."


"Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information."



"Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount."


"As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy."


"You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information."


"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."


"If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information."



"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops."


"Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel."


"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."


"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."


"Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents."


"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."


"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."


"If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin."


"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."


"It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers."


"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."



"I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis."


"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."


"I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me."


"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."


"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one."


"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."



"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"


"Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs."


"An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place."


"This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information."


"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."


"You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer."


"The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting."


"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."


"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."


"Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A."


"Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves."


"If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally."



"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."


"I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information."


"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."


"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."


"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."


"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."



"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."


"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
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