Information Quotes

• When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Young
  • Facts
  • Pieces

• The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

  

  Sharon Begley
  • Mind
  • Information
  • Computer

• I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

  

  Gerald Scarfe
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

  

  William H. Whyte
  • People
  • Together
  • Change

• Inspiration comes from everywhere: New York City is inspiration, my pedigree, every lesson that I’ve learned along the way from assisting, etc. But I guess the biggest challenge in shooting musicians is to really try to nail what that particular project is going to feel like forever. I always ask for as much information from my subjects as possible.

  

  Jonathan Mannion
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Musicians

• Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • Fear
  • Learning
  • Institution

• when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

  

  Carol O'Connell
  • Internet
  • Fishing
  • Fishes

• Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it.

  

  Charles Elachi
  • Contact
  • Objects
  • Defined

• The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

  

  Steven A. Cohen
  • Information
  • Inside
  • Trading

• The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.

  

  Elaine A. Cannon
  • Goal
  • Creator
  • The Lord

• My mother used to say, "Tell your brain you want that piece of information or you want to solve this problem, and then just walk away from it. Just forget about it. Just do something else, completely distract yourself, and you'll see, it's like a computer. Eventually, it will deliver it up." And I find that's really true.

  

  Emma Walton Hamilton
  • Problem
  • Forget
  • My Mother

• I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Mountain
  • Lawyer
  • Faculty

• If I can educate a little, that's great; if I can cause somebody to go and seek out further information about Lincoln, that's excellent, but, I'm an entertainer, you know? I'm not a historian, I'm a cartoonist.

  

  Noah Van Sciver
  • Information
  • Educate
  • Cartoonist

• Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Needs
  • Members
  • Century

• Enlightenment is not the process of learning 'new' information. It is the process of 'reminding' ourselves that the answers are already 'within our consciousness'. All knowledge, all energy, all information is within us, not outside of us. it always has been and always will be.

  

  Eric Allen
  • Energy
  • Consciousness
  • Enlightenment

• But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.

  

  Eva Hoffman
  • Knowledge
  • Books
  • Reflection

• The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. Educate and Empower & see the results.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Money
  • Power
  • Educate

• When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

  

  Ken Starr
  • Office
  • Dress
  • Sensitive

• Don’t grow only for yourself. If you have some worthwhile information, share it. By reaching others, you will reach yourself.

  

  Noah Weinberg
  • Information
  • Grow
  • Reaching

• We deal with all varieties of information. Somebody's always upset no matter what we do. We have to make a decision; otherwise there's a never-ending debate.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • Deals
  • Debate
  • Upset

• 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 idea that Jesus rose on the 'third day' was originally a theological construct, not a historical piece of information.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Jesus
  • Idea
  • Information

• Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

  

  Eric San
  • Information
  • Sorry
  • Motorists

• Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Action
  • Quality
  • Firsts

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