All Quotes By Tag: Information

“It is possible to drown in information… and die for lack of wisdom.”

“If capital is what produces a stream of income – and that is a definition no one seems to quarrel with – then it follows that software is a form of capital. It has always been difficult to measure any form of knowledge capital, but in the past the problem was not as urgent, since the ratio of difficult-to-quantify knowledge capital to more tangible capital was not as high or growing as rapidly as it is today.”

“We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?”

“information is to knowledge what meaning is to comprehension”

“Education is limited. Knowledge is infinite. Never stop learning.”

“Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.”

“…to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice…Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath – who were they? Only be reading could she find out.”

“The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.”

“The family is the cradle of the world’s misinformation.”

“Isn’t that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something… Incomplete information… Endless possibilities… When you don’t know much about something, it’s the most exciting sensation.-Kutsnetz in TALUS”

“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them.”[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”

“[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.”

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.”

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”