Jerry Garcia Quotes

The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

In politics, information is superabundant—what is needed is judgement and selectivity in dealing with that information.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: the attention of its recipients.

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

We are drowning in information.

I think it is so important to pass down knowledge and information to younger generations.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

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

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.