Information Gap Quotes

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

When it comes to the law enforcement coordination and intelligence sharing, not only does the left hand have no knowledge of what the right hand is doing, one hand does not even recognize that the other hand exists.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

The media ignores what is really going on.

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

We were bereft of any human intelligence—zero, nada, in terms of agents on the ground…. We had no answers.

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?

I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.

Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

You can’t have simultaneous notification on important issues. Some people always get the word before others.

When people don't get enough information, they make it up.

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.

Years ago, even prior to 9/11, I did a movie called "The Siege." I did a lot of research with the FBI and the CIA. And I was amazed at that time (I guess we might all know it now) how little information they shared with each other. So after that, I'm not surprised by anything.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.

But how does it happen, that all our information of what is transacting in Europe, should come through indirect Channels, or from the Enemy?