Information Impact Quotes

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

Not all information is beneficial.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

We are not the "free thinkers" we think we are. What we eat unavoidably impacts our physiology; the information we consume inevitably affects our opinions and perspectives. You cannot eat junk food with impunity; you cannot consume information without consequences.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.

Only in the United States could you believe that people could be changed by information.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.