Heinz R. Pagels Quotes

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action.

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

Knowledge is theory. We should be thankful if action of management is based on theory. Knowledge has temporal spread. Information is not knowledge. The world is drowning in information but is slow in acquisition of knowledge. There is no substitute for knowledge.

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.