Information Quotes

• Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Information
  • Mediums

• The internet makes information easier to come by, but harder to control - think of the success of blogs like ConservativeHome and Guido Fawkes. I definitely think Parliament's website can be improved - perhaps it could have better access to video feed, include interactive features or have discussion forums.

  

  Theresa May
  • Internet
  • Conservative
  • Discussion

• Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

  

  Michel Houellebecq
  • Thinking
  • Knows
  • Lacking

• Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Duty
  • Argument
  • Typography

• Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Materials

• Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Money
  • Security
  • Access

• Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Library
  • Numbers
  • Equalizer

• Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Information
  • Act
  • Company`s ability

• As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself…The critical issue is allowing yourself to know what you know. That takes an enormous amount of courage.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • War
  • Courage
  • Secrets

• People should be concerned about this information. That's why we want to have steps taken immediately to fix it.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Why
  • Taken

• Dear 2600: ...So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out? This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action.

  

  Eric Corley
  • Action
  • Letter
  • Checking out

• If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

  

  Arthur Curley
  • Power
  • Information

• It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

  

  John Poindexter
  • Information
  • Ideal
  • Controlled

• Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Learning
  • Information
  • Teaching

• The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Language
  • Chemistry
  • Biology

• If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Important
  • Persons

• Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

  

  Betty Edwards
  • History
  • Language
  • Information

• Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

  

  Catherine Bell
  • Internet
  • Information
  • Use

• The tension of constructing an explanation, from A to B to C to D, apparently so simple a task, irritates many people with ADD. While they can hold the information in mind, they do not have the patience to sequentially put it out. That is too tedious. They would like to dump the information in a heap on the floor all at once and have it be comprehended instantly.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Information
  • Patience
  • Task

• A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Strategy
  • Fail
  • Execution

• Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

  

  Alfredo Jaar
  • Know
  • Action
  • Information

• The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!

  

  George Raveling
  • Decision
  • Information
  • Data

• Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Way
  • Speak
  • Humans

• Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

  

  George Siemens
  • Internet
  • Creation
  • Availability

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