Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Data is not intelligence.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

All I'm armed with is research.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

I'm big on research.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

Facts are often complicated.