Information Search Quotes

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The value of knowledge is to use it. It is not humanly possible that a person can retain all knowledge of the world, but if a person knows how to search for all the knowledge of the world, he will find it when he wants it.

I buy a lot of books I've found via the Internet, whose existences I'd otherwise never have known about.

There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

It' easy to find information on Google guru but that's not equal to gaining knowledge.

I only ask for information.

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

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.

With the Internet you can research anything.

When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.

Anything we can do that lets people find information more quickly is something we're interested in.

Computers ought to help people find their own best path through lots of textual information.

People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.

The search for information gives me more confidence, because confidence arises from understanding.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.