Gregory Bateson Quotes

The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is.

The good news is that more than ever, value accrues to those that show up, those that make a difference, those that do work that matters.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

When it's all over, it's not who you were ... it's whether you made a difference.

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

You don't have to make the headlines to make a difference.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

Don't aspire to make a living, aspire to make a difference.

What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Freshness is essential. That makes all the difference.

Be sure that you make a difference in the world.

What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference,’ she siad. ‘You know, actually change something.’ ‘What, like “change the world”, you mean?’ ‘Not the whole entire world. Just the little bit around you.

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

Every single line means something.

God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived.