1,011 Quotes About Information

Even if a particle could travel backward in time, information could not. Retrocausality will be replaced by something more sophisticated.

In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.

Information contains an almost mystical power of free flow and self replication, just as water seeks it's own level or sparks fly upward.

To acquire and collect the information defines as significant research; conversely, spying features it, as an illegal attack on privacy.

It is possible to drown in information... and die for lack of wisdom.

Some people’s information is other people’s misinformation and even disinformation. That is pretty much the contemporary condition.

It's impossible to gather too much information.

Nothing can be completely described because of levels of description. No matter how much information we use to describe a tree, it will always be incomplete. The only complete description of the tree is the tree itself. We can always add more, no question, because there is the life cycle of the tree and the context in which the tree resides until we have included everything, whatever that means.

Information is abundant, it flows through so many sources that what once was a river one waded through is now a flood we struggle to keep afloat in.