W. Edwards Deming Quotes

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

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

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

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.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

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

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

The world is too full of information.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.