Quotes about Information

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Suspense in news is torture.

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

The internet is full of many false and unverified quotes.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

If you don't read the newspapers, you are uniformed. If you do read them, you are misinformed.