I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I’m teeming […]
Information Quotes
Hear one side and you will be in the dark; hear both sides, and all will be clear.
Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.
The expression of consent by the majority is not free if it is deprived of access to sources of information, if it can read only the official interpretation, if it can hear only one voice in the classroom, pulpit, and radio.
If one is kept ignorant of alternatives, denied access to information, deprived of the opportunity to influence and be influenced by the opinions of others, consent is not free.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
The difference between a rabbit and a rock is the information content, and the difference between a living and a dead rabbit is in the availability or usability of the information.
Never, never, never turn down a chance to talk to anyone who wants to tell you things, unless it’s a deliberate strategy to extract more information later. There are no uninformative informants. The ignoramus’s structure of ignorance will look very much like his culture’s structure of knowledge. The fool’s folly will be a bad copy […]
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
