Information Quotes - Page 2

• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Humor, Oxygen

  The Guardian, June 14, 1989.

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

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Data Science

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• The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

  Steve Ballmer

  Learning, Creativity, Technology

  "The Astounding Impact of Innovative Technology in the Developing World" by Rev. Larry Hollon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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

  Clay Shirky

  Filters, Information Overload, Overload

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  Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  James Madison

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

  1822; cited in U.S. Senate, Alleged Assassination Plots (1975).

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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  The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  Patrick Henry

  Fake People, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Volume 3". Book by Jonathan Elliot, 1836.

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• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Margaret Mead

  Truth, Believe, Add

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 9 Aug. 1964

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• Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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• There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

  Laurence Gartel

  Life Changing, Degrees, Useless

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)

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• Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Memories, Skills, Personality

  "As Humans and Computers Merge … Immortality?". "PBS NewsHour" with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. Jul 10, 2012.

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• The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Communication, Two, Giving

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• Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

  Peter Russell

  Ideas, Association, Connected

  Peter Russell (2013). “The Brain Book: Know Your Own Mind and How to Use it”, p.105, Routledge

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sadness, Useless Things

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Learning, Knowledge, Differences

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• Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.

  Victor Kiam

  Weapons, Negotiation

  Victor Kiam (1987). “Going for It: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur”, Signet

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• Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Science, Technology, Decision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.219, Verso

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• I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

  Ruben Blades

  Education, Ignorance, Thinking

  "Not everyone enthusiastic about the future of TV". Bangor Daily News, February 18, 1993.

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

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

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• We live by information, not by sight.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Knowledge, Sight, Live By

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.45, Shambhala Publications

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• When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and -- eventually -- incapable of determining their own destinies.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Destiny, People, Ignorant

  Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.402, Best Books on

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• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  Peter Drucker

  Strength, Wise, Information Knowledge

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Spring, Years, People

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• New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.

  Carmine Gallo

  Brain, Important, Research

  Carmine Gallo (2010). “The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience”, McGraw Hill Professional

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