information Quotes

“The uninformed must improve their deficit, or die.”

“Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so...full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.”

“Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.”

“People have trouble discarding things that they could still use (functional value), that contain helpful information (informational value), and that have sentimental ties (emotional value). When these things are hard to obtain or replace (rarity), they become even harder to part with.”

“One way or the other, I have a very valuable piece of information. And if they know I have it, they might do something to alter the force field so I can’t see the aberration anymore. So I lie.”

“Our conversations were now stilted and reserved, as if [Aech and I] were both afraid of revealing some key piece of information the other might be able to use.”

“No medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are.”

“For the record, he who does fear death also dies only once, but whatever.”

“Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.”

“I love this part of getting to know someone. How every piece of new information, every new expression seems magical.”

“Trump came to believe he understood everything about the media—who you need to know, what pretense you need to maintain, what information you could profitably trade, what lies you might tell, what lies the media expected you to tell. ”

“The mere imparting of information is not education. ”

“All that extra information isn’t actually an advantage at all; that, in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon.”

“Extra information is more than useless. It’s harmful. It confuses the issues. What screws up doctors when they are trying to predict heart attacks is that they take too much information into account.”

“Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation.”

“…always he was alert for information, for lessons on how to be.”

“In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information was control.”

“Information about art and nature feels like the best stuff to have, and if you have it, you learn new things about the original thing.”

“Criminal lawyers journalists are not enemies, the former need advertisement, the latter information.”

“You’ll be told your hearing is so mucky and muddy, your case calls for special intensified study.”