Information Availability Quotes

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

When we have all data online it will be great for humanity. It is a prerequisite to solving many problems that humankind faces.

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

You cannot expect people to react to information they don't have.

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!

The world's information is digital. The web, the news, all of that is digital. And now... we have ten million books scanned. That was the last bastion of what was offline; it's now online and accessible.

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

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

The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

Free markets work better when information is available.

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.