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Quotes about information
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information. (Bernsen Corbin)
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. (Bernsen Corbin)
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. (Bernsen Corbin)
Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that. (Bernsen Corbin)
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Information is the currency of democracy. (Bernsen Corbin)
Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major --perhaps the major --stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor. (Bernsen Corbin)
The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. (Bernsen Corbin)
Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold. (Bernsen Corbin)
We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is. (Bernsen Corbin)
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. (Bernsen Corbin)
Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network. (Bernsen Corbin)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. (Bernsen Corbin)
Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level. (Bernsen Corbin)
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. (Bernsen Corbin)
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune. (Bernsen Corbin)
It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice. (Bernsen Corbin)
Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out. (Bernsen Corbin)
Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information. (Bernsen Corbin)
Having complete information and having it quickly is a key to administering justice. NCIC allows you to get more information and get it quickly. (Bernsen Corbin)
If I had any skepticism about what I had read in the paper or seen in the wire services, I would try to call people to find out more information. (Bernsen Corbin)
In terms of the production, those are entertaining devices, as long as they don't distract you from the information. (Bernsen Corbin)
In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today. (Bernsen Corbin)
We did not know what they wanted information for, (Bernsen Corbin)
We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws, (Bernsen Corbin)
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information. (Bernsen Corbin)
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