Information Quotes
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“Wisdom is dead. Long live information.”
“Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.”
“If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess.”
“people cannot take action if they don't have accurate information.”
“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”
“There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.”
“You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.”
“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
“Information is not a substance or concrete entity but rather a relationship between sets or ensembles of structured variety.”
“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.”
“Information is not lost in black holes, but it is not returned in a useful way. It is like burning an encyclopaedia. Information is not lost, but it is very hard to read.”
“In 2007, for the first time ever, more information was generated in one year than had been produced in the entire previous five thousand years - the period since the invention of writing.”
“Data, seeming facts, apparent associations-these are not certain knowledge of something. They may be puzzles that can one day be explained; they may be trivia that need not be explained at all.”
“... we simply try to give you all of the information about our businesses, in a large general way, that Charlie and I would want if our positions were reversed. ... The facts are out about what we do.”
“Information exists. It does not need to be perceived to exist. It does not need to be understood to exist. It requires no intelligence to interpret it. It does not have to have meaning to exist. It exists.”
“The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information.”
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
“Information smacks of safe neutrality; it is simple, helpful heaping of unassailable facts. In that innocent guise, its the perfect starting point for a technocratic political agenda that wants as little exposure for its objectives as possible. After all, what can anyone say against information?”