Quotessence
Home / Topics / Information Quotes

Information Quotes

Browse 4575 quotes about Information.

Related topics

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWorldNeedsGivingWantInternetUseTechnologyIdeasImportantShouldKindAccessMindBookGovernmentFactsWellsDoeProcessMeanMayHumansTryingSourceProblemAgeDifferentYearsDataFirstsPersonsMediaDecisionHelpingFeelsMenAmountBrainComputerFormRealAbleMadeBelieveAbilityLooksTwoCommunicationWritingAvailableMatterGivenHas BeensEnoughShareStatesTodayLittlesStoriesChildrenNewsLongSocialCompanyI CanPiecesStillsArtMightNew InformationCountryInformation TechnologyUsedIndividualLibrarySometimesJobsActionFlowInformation AgeValuesCasesWarBitsKnowledgeCertainHardOrderReasonToo MuchCultureHandsSaidWholeAsksmore

Information Quotes

“The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The science that we have come to know as information theory establishes the supremacy of the entrepreneur because it appreciates the powerful connection between destruction and what Schumpeter described as "creative destruction," between chaos and creativity.”

KnowsImportantPowerfulCreativityEconomyCreativeInformationTheoryEconomicsAppreciateConnectionsDestructionEntrepreneurSurpriseChaosDefinedFeaturesAttainmentEquilibriumSupremacyCreative Destruction
Book:Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
Create image

“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

KnowsMindArtistCreativeInformationSurvivalMachinesDefenseStillnessGatheringAnalyzingTrue Artists
Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Create image

“If you're frustrated by a music industry that seems too hard to break into, you're not alone. The BIG secret is information...It's not who you know, it's what you know. People who know how to put their music out make money. People who don't know how, have to beg others to help them. It's as simple as that. HipHopBiz.com provides the information people like you have been using since 1992 to release their own music.”

PeopleIfsKnowsHas BeensHardHelpingBigsSeemsSimpleSecretBreakKnow HowInformationLike YouIndustryReleaseMaking MoneyFrustratedNot AloneMusic IndustryWho You Know
Author:Walt F. J. Goodridge
Create image

“If men were able to be convinced that art is a precise advance knowledge of how to cope with the psychic and social consequences of the next technology, would they all become artist? Or would they begin a careful translation of new art forms into social navigation charts? I am curious to know what would happem if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate the next blow from our own extended faculties.”

IfsKnowsMenArtAbleFormArtistOrderNextSocialTechnologyInformationArt IsConsequenceBlowCarefulConvincedCuriousFacultyPrecisePsychicsTranslationsAnticipateNavigation
Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man
Create image

“We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as a compendium of new information leading from primal superstition to final exactitude. We know that the sun is hub of our little corner of the universe, and that ties of genealogy connect all living things on our planet, because these theories assemble and explain so much otherwise disparate and unrelated information not because Galileo trained his telescope on the moons of Jupiter or because Darwin took a ride on a Galápagos tortoise.”

IfsKnowsMindLittlesUniverseViewsSunInformationPlanetsTheoryMoonIntellectualFinalsCornersTiesSuperstitionsOur PlanetLiving ThingsRichnessPrimalTelescopesJupiterPageantGenealogyGalsNew InformationHubTortoisesExactitude
Author:Stephen Jay Gould
Create image

“I think too much is known about me already. I think biographical information can get in the way of the reading experience. The interchange between the reader and the work. For example, I know far too much about Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut. Because I know as much as I do about their personal lives, I can't read their work without this interjecting itself. So if I had it to do over, I'd probably go the way of J.D. Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. And just stay out of it altogether and let all the focus be on the work itself and not on me.”

IfsThinkingKnowsWayI CanReadingKnownToo MuchFocusInformationExampleReaderPersonal LifeInterchangeSalingerReading Experience
Author:Tom Robbins
Create image

“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
Create image

“When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.”

PeopleKnowsWritingTryingWholeHandsTogetherCertainGivenPiecesInformationCommunicationDirectThirdsRangeRelyHorizonFourth
Author:R. D. Laing
Create image

“Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.”

KnowsNeedsFeelsDoeMadeSaidAsksFatherPrayerInformationCreationPrayingCreaturesLikesGod LoveInvitesPartnershipOur PrayersApostlesInvitingGod Is Love
Author:Philip Yancey
Create image

“Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.”

IfsKnowsTryingStillsRealFeelingsEyeSpiritAttentionKnow HowToo MuchInformationIdentityTravelEssenceWideMysteriousTunesReverenceInwardNeedlesFactualRapport
Author:Lawrence Durrell
Create image

“You find very few critics who approach their job with a combination of information and enthusiasm and humility that makes for a good critic. But there is nothing wrong with critics as long as people don't pay any attention to them. I mean, nobody wants to put them out of a job and a good critic is not necessarily a dead critic. It's just that people take what a critic says as a fact rather than an opinion, and you have to know whether the opinion of the critic is informed or uninformed, intelligent of stupid -- but most people don't take the trouble.”

PeopleKnowsWantMeanLongFactsJobsPayAttentionOpinionTroubleStupidInformationHumilityApproachCriticismIntelligentCriticsEnthusiasmCombinationUninformed
Book:Conversations with Edward Albee
Create image

“Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.”

KnowsWantWellsPoliticalSimpleInformationScientistComplexesArguingEducatedImpulseComplexityExposedStrainLeftists
Book:Coping: On the Practice of Government
Create image

“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.”

KnowsKindMayHandsMightFormOrderIndividualWatchesInformationMovementActivityEssentialsConcernedMetaphorProducersSymbolsEngineersMachineryWatch MePointersTelecommunications
Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
Create image

“Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world.”

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldBelieveHardChallengesFantasyKnow HowTakenLandCenturyFrontsInformationPositionDecadesExperimentsAround The WorldLegislationEmergingPathwaysPosition Of Power
Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
Create image

“[What I want to communicate] doesn't have a language with which I can communicate it. The things that I want to communicate are simply self-evident, emotional things. And the gifts of those things are that they bring both intellectual and emotional gifts - understanding. But I don't really have a major message that I want to bring to the world through my music. The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.”

PeopleKnowsWorldWantNeedsHumansI CanSelfLanguageUnderstandingHuman BeingsInformationEmotionalMinesMajorsMessagesIntellectualCommunicateBeing HumanEvidentEmotional Things
Author:Jeff Buckley
Create image

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

KnowsMindWellsLooksMayLittlesI CanDesireNightReadingWishPleasurePoorInformationHairBedAnxietyIncreaseMereProfitStoresChiefsNeglectedBrushing
Book:Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters
Create image

“There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.”

KnowsWorldOpportunityLevelsDealsProgressGenerationsInformationIgnoranceHigherPerformancesComplexesMachineryHigher Level
Book:Making Sense
Create image

“sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.”

PeopleKnowsWellsSexCommunityLosesMistakeInformationCoupleGayMarriedConnectionsPainfulSexualityPrimariesOur SocietyGoodsUnitsWorldlyGay People
Author:Rita Mae Brown
Create image

“A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.”

PeopleKnowsWantKindMeanHelpingAnswersTakenInformationPhotographerRidiculousVolunteerDiminishGod KnowsGet Real
Author:William Eggleston
Create image

“I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.”

ThinkingKnowsFeelsIdeasSometimesHardStoriesTakenFireInformationConsequenceReputationComedianConfusingSchizophrenic
Author:Tim Heidecker
Create image

“The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?”

KnowsWantShouldHeartDoeImportantBookCharacterChallengesSecretFocusInformationImpactRevelations
Author:Peter Turchi
Create image

“I would ask, "How can one have a technological society without research? How can one have research without researching dangerous areas? How can one research dangerous areas without uncovering dangerous information? How can you uncover dangerous information without it falling into the hands of insane people who will sooner or later destroy the human race, if not the whole of life on earth?" Who knows? God only knows!”

PeopleIfsKnowsHumansWholeHandsEarthFallAsksRaceDangerousInformationResearchAreasInsaneHuman RaceSooner Or LaterTechnologicalKnowing GodUncovering
Author:Pete Seeger
Create image