information relevance Quotes

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

We live in a world where people are really hungry for information, and they're not hungry for information on subjects that they're not interested in.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Today knowledge is free. It's like air, it's like water... There's no competitive advantage to knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn't care what you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.

Style is important, but content comes first.

We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information.

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

Not all information is beneficial.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

Content is king, but context is God.

The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.