“Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.” WayRealInformationInternetConversationMessagesOne WayBloggingDump Author:Indra Nooyi
“The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.” AgeSeaInformationNew YorkInternetNewsNew York TimesInformation AgePull UpsSea Change Author:Pete du Pont
“At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.” InformationInternetOfficeLosingFlowDisasterPostsMailRecipesEmailRevenueSlowingPost OfficeInstantaneousMail Service Author:Bernie Sanders
“Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.” ShouldHomeNumbersInformationBirthInternetConnectionsDollarsIncludingPhonesAccessIncomeAddressesMailUsersPhone NumbersPersonal InformationInternet Connection Author:Al Franken
“Whether it's by helping us search for health-related information, connecting us with doctors through online portals, or enabling us to store and retrieve our medical records online, the Internet is starting to show the promise it has to transform the way people interact with and improve their own health and wellness.” PeopleWayHelpingShowsRecordsInformationInternetPromiseDoctorsStartingStoresMedicalRelatedWellnessOnlineConnectingEnablingHealth And WellnessPortalMedical RecordsHealth Related Author:Dean Ornish
“The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.” Would BeAgeInformationInternetDramaRight NowPhonesCellsCell PhonePsychoticInformation Age Book:Two-way Street Source: Two-way Street
“The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it.” IdeasInformationInternetEssentialsNewsSpringExpectationsAccessRevolutionaryCollectivesAvailability Author:Chris Cannon
“The good news is you can get a lot of information off the Internet for free and in a hurry. But I think the breaking up of the media, which is otherwise kind of healthy, has contributed to less actual reporting and a louder, more contentious, more divisive public discourse, highlighting conflict, sometimes falsely.” ThinkingKindSometimesMediaInformationInternetHealthyConflictNewsDiscourseGood NewsPublic DiscourseContentiousHighlighting Author:William J. Clinton
“Teachers say to me, 'The internet is full of rubbish, wrong answers.' But you would be surprised how just long it takes to find wrong information on Google, and where it's not obvious that it's wrong.” LongWould BeAnswersTeacherInformationInternetObviousGoogleRubbishWrong Answers Author:Sugata Mitra
“We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and its time to just unplug and look within.” LooksInformationInternetStreaming Author:Jonathan Cain
“The internet helps with information exchange in general so it's obviously easier to check out tracks and whatnot from different genres. I think people are a lot more open to music in general because it's being communicated easier.” PeopleThinkingDifferentHelpingInformationInternetEasierTrackChecksGenreDifferent Genres Author:Girl Talk
“More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.” PeopleWorldFirstsCountryHandsValuesCultureInformationTvsInternetPhonesOther CountriesMobileValidityOther CulturesMobile PhonesSecond HandFirst Hand Experience Author:Nitin Sawhney
“When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.” IfsKnowsWayMeanEndsUseFoundToo MuchStyleInformationCoupleInternetExcitingLibraryVariousVanityAcquireButtonsMediocreTrickyOld DaysDisagreeableEncyclopediaToo Much Information Author:Norman Mailer
“I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.” ThinkingLongImportantChanceGenerationsInformationInternetFlowToolsPressesInventionFuture GenerationPrintingPrinting Press Author:Marianne Williamson
“Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices .” InformationInternetPrejudiceSelect Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies. They've done so in three ways: by dramatically boosting the access of individuals and special interests to politically potent information, by making it easier for such people to coordinate their activities and exert political power, and by greatly increasing the pace of events within our political systems.” PeopleWayDonePoliticalThreePoliticsIndividualInterestTechnologyDemocracyModernSpecialEventsInformationChangedInternetEasierActivityCompetitionIncludingPhonesAccessLandscapePaceEmailBlastPolitical SystemsPhone CallsInformation TechnologyPolitical PowerSpecial InterestsCoordinatesNew InformationThree WaysFax Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon
“I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.” KindTermCompassionOpinionInformationInternetDietsQuantitySheerFatigueNiagara Author:Larry Gelbart
“whenever I encountered a slide show titled 'Eight Diet Foods That Pack on the Pounds' or 'Celebrity Fashion Fails,' I'd have to stop and investigate because hey, it might be information I'd need in some unforeseeable future where I had become, for some reason, a fat celebrity.” NeedsReasonShowsMightFailingFashionInformationInternetEightFatsHeyDietsPoundsPacksSlides Author:Merrill Markoe
“It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.” NeedsWellsDoeAgeJobsPresidentLeaderMediaInformationInternetNewsToughChosenRemindingInformation AgeNews Media Author:Donald Rumsfeld
“Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.” ShouldInformationInternetVersionsHyperUseful Information Author:Chris Hardwick
“I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.” HumansUseSufferingProcessFrontsInformationInternetResearchDirectScreensAtmosphereProseCrashDiscourseAssaultVirusesHustleScamsSluggishUntrustworthyTwitching Author:Annie Proulx
“To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.” PeopleWorldShouldInterestBreakInformationInternetAvailableBoundariesPlaces In The World Author:Melanie Griffith
“when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.” InformationInternetFishesFishing Book:Mallory's Oracle Source: Mallory's Oracle
“The Internet has transformed many parts of our daily lives, touching everything from how we find information to how we go shopping, get directions, and even stay in touch with friends and family.” InformationInternetDaily LifeTouchingShoppingTransformedFamily And Friends Author:Dean Ornish
“People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.” PeopleHas BeensWantedCoursesStuffGroupsShareInformationGoes OnInternetPerceptionBunchVisible Author:Walt Mossberg
“Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.” ThinkingKnowsUseUsedGuyTechnologyKnow HowProgressStupidInformationInternetHorseEducationalAccessThanksDumbSmarterGoogleElectricityEducation SystemIphoneTokensEducational SystemWigsAccess To InformationNeanderthalsStupid Guy Author:Glenn Beck
“Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.” TurnsInformationInternetPickles Author:Brian Posehn
“With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.” PeopleInformationInternetCreditYoutubeOverloadCuratorInformation Overload Author:Chad Hurley
“When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.” WorldFirstsHumansUsePassionLinesCreativityInformationInternetAmbitionInnovationGreedAdvertisingLiberationConformityCommerceFloating Author:Neil Strauss
“The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.” PeopleImportantInformationInternetImportant ThingsDevicesFrameworkWireless Author:Julius Genachowski
“We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age.” PeopleWorldNeedsGivingCountryAgeTechnologyInformationInternetAccessOur CountryAround The WorldBridgesDigitalDividesInformation AgeDigital Divide Author:Al Gore
“I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.” WantMorningTechnologyInformationAmountInternetSeriesYesterdayClockStaffFridayTruckTubesDumpTangled Author:Theodore Stevens
“We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.” BelieveWholeBigsAgeMovingStuffSecurityInformationIdentityInternetMessagesDistanceIceDataInstantPrivacyIronParticipationInfrastructurePublishBlogsParticipatingFacilitateComputingStorageInformation AgeIce AgeMoving OutCloud ComputingData Centers Author:Scott McNealy
“The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.” QualityInformationInternetDataEditorsFree SpeechHighwaysUtilityAccuracySaying NoDeliveringBarometerPedigreeTimeliness Author:Clifford Stoll
“Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.” TryingAgeSuccessfulInformationWindInternetFree Speech Author:Keith Henson
“That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.” PeopleWayTryingCountryPlayGamesProcessQualityInformationInternetFlowFree SpeechChanges Over TimeLegislative Process Author:Newt Gingrich
“Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.” PeopleWorldWayLittlesDifferentFactsEyeMovingTechnologyInformationInternetDifferent WaysFactoriesFlashFree SpeechAdoptedAdaptedBlinkBlink Of An Eye Author:William J. Clinton
“Maybe we need a tax credit for the poorest Americans to buy a laptop. Now, maybe that's wrong, maybe that's expensive, maybe we can't do it, but I'll tell you, any signal that we can send to the poorest Americans that says, 'We're going into a 21st century, third-wave information age, and so are you, and we want to carry you with us.'” WantNeedsAgeCenturyInformationInternetTaxesThirdsWaveCreditExpensiveFree Speech21st CenturySignalsPoorestLaptopsInformation Age Author:Newt Gingrich
“Information wants to be free. Believe it.” WantBelieveInformationInternetFree Speech Author:Bruce Sterling
“While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student's arithmetic or correct his spelling.” WorryInformationStudentsInternetSkillsComputerArgumentFavorsDebateVideoLandscapeSoftwareClassroomDeclineFree SpeechShallowLiteracyLinearArithmeticSpellingDiscounts Author:David Gelernter
“There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.” RealMatterGovernmentAbilitySecurityInformationDangerInternetMissionsCriticalDiscussionDamageFree SpeechExploitationNational SecuritySignalsHostile Author:Bobby Ray Inman
“The popularity of the Internet and using it as an available resource has really changed the way chefs kind of gather information and look for inspiration. To me, a food trend is potentially a lot of people following an idea.” PeopleWayLooksKindIdeasInspirationInformationChangedInternetResourcesFollowingAvailableTrendsPopularityChef Author:Grant Achatz
“The Internet is an almost miraculous way of getting information, of finding and organizing with each other, both minutely and globally. A million times better than the phone and the mimeograph! Also much better than TV, which is one-way and passive.” WayMillionsInformationTvsInternetFindingsPhonesOne WayPassiveMiraculous Author:Gloria Steinem
“The internet did not exist when I started out, the fact that bands can build a website and get all their information out there is really helpful. If you really love to play, I would say to keep doing it, because it's what you love and what you have to do.” IfsPlayFactsInformationInternetBandHelpfulWebsiteWhat You Love Author:Joan Jett
“There's so much information on the internet. But people don't need more information, they need 'aha moments,' they need awareness, they need things that actually shift and change them.” PeopleNeedsMomentsAwarenessInformationInternetAha Moment Author:Jack Canfield
“The Internet moves us closer to "perfect information" on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.” MovingIndividualPerfectCompanyInformationInternetDemandSellsBordersJurisdictionSupply And Demand Author:Milton Friedman
“The whole difficulty I think that that we're facing now is the question of who is going to ensure that corporations are accountable. The problem with leaving it to activists and non-governmental organizations-even with the tool of the Internet at their disposal-is that those organizations and those people don't have the legal right to compel corporations to disclose information, and that is something that governments can do.” PeopleThinkingWholeProblemGovernmentCan DoBusinessInformationInternetToolsOrganizationDifficultyLeavingCorporationsActivist Author:Joel Bakan
“The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.” IfsWantFirstsSimpleInformationInternetLibraryGoogleKate Author:Theo Paphitis
“I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.” PeopleThinkingHumansSometimesBigsAgeInformationInternetNormalPagesGainsProductivityLike MePlotLoadInformation AgeWeb Page Author:Scott Adams
“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.” ThinkingWorldWholeParentInterestingCasesGenerationsInformationInternetEasierAdultsGainsTradeDigitalActivistDomainYoutubeIntriguingNew GenerationYounger GenerationBrewing Author:Serj Tankian