Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
Information Quotes
Information can’t be put in any container that isn’t leaky.
Manual, n.: A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.
To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Finagle’s New Law of Information, 1979: 1. The information we have is not what we want. 2. The information we want is not what we need. 3. The information we need isn’t available. We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
If one is kept ignorant of alternatives, denied access to information, deprived of the opportunity to influence and be influenced by the opinions of others, consent is not free.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
The difference between a rabbit and a rock is the information content, and the difference between a living and a dead rabbit is in the availability or usability of the information.
Never, never, never turn down a chance to talk to anyone who wants to tell you things, unless it’s a deliberate strategy to extract more information later. There are no uninformative informants. The ignoramus’s structure of ignorance will look very much like his culture’s structure of knowledge. The fool’s folly will be a bad copy […]
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
