We must become much more efficient and more clever in the ways we find new sources of data, mine information from the new and old, generate information, make it available for analysis, convert it to knowledge, and create actionable options. We must also break down the stovepipes – at least punch holes in them. By […]
Information Quotes
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Information can’t be put in any container that isn’t leaky.
Manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.
To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Finagle’s New Law of Information, 1979: 1. The information we have is not what we want. 2. The information we want is not what we need. 3. The information we need isn’t available. We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
There are four means of obtaining information about the enemy’s operations: espionage, reconnaissances, questioning prisoners, and signals.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
