Information Quotes

• Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

  

  Scott Pelley
  • Information
  • Human History

• Build a quantum computer and problems long dismissed as hopeless would melt away. Imagine tapping a fundamental force of nature, not for the purpose of moving around matter but for moving around numbers—explosions of information. Quantum computing would be to ordinary computing what nuclear energy is to fire.

  

  George Johnson
  • Information
  • Quantum
  • Computing

• Just because information is stolen, that doesn't make it more useful.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Information
  • Useful

• You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Enough
  • Hopefully
  • Tease

• That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you.

  

  Paul Gleason
  • Information
  • Surroundings
  • Vigilant

• Good singing is learning how to transmit learning musical information with your voice in a way that everybody can relate to. But as a woman you just get a lot of criticism because everyone sees you like a raw lump of clay that needs some help.

  

  Weyes Blood
  • Singing
  • Voice
  • Relate

• Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Information
  • Economic
  • Course

• People who are invested in feminist movements are going to be talking about it regardless. Because we have such powerful tools to disseminate information and share resources, especially via social media.

  

  Andi Zeisler
  • Information
  • Media
  • Feminist

• I take the market-efficiency hypothesis to be the simple statement that security prices fully reflect all available information.

  

  Eugene Fama
  • Simple
  • Security
  • Efficiency

• Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Process
  • Evolve
  • Register

• People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Reading
  • Information

• Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Greed
  • Intellectual Life
  • Indigestion

• The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.

  

  Alison Stewart
  • Information
  • Congress
  • Emails

• When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our Unix System 5 that we directly own or is related to one of our flavors of Unix that we have derivative works rights over--we don't necessarily own those flavors, but we have control rights over how that information gets disseminated--the amount is substantial. We're not talking about just lines of code; we're talking about entire programs. We're talking about hundred [sic] of thousands of lines of code.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Today
  • Program
  • Hundred

• An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.

  

  David Mermin
  • Growth
  • Forbidden
  • Conveyed

• Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Search
  • Evidence
  • Surprising

• Some places will, however, be left behind. Not every city will succeed, because not every city has been adept at adapting to the age of information, in which ideas are the ultimate creator of wealth.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • Wealth
  • Succeed
  • Creator

• If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Life
  • Information
  • Output

• We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.

  

  Bernard Goldberg
  • True
  • Agenda
  • Brokers

• I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

  

  Michael Moore
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • 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.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Ultimate
  • Amount
  • Higher

• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • World
  • Boy
  • Feel

• The transition from the concept of information in the technical (communication engineering) sense to the semantic (theory of meaning) sense was indeed difficult, if not impossible.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Sense
  • Technical
  • Semantic

• A lot of information that people are looking for, you have to remind them that it’s really easy to find on Google.

  

  Chris Burkard
  • Easy
  • Google
  • Looking For

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