Information proverbs

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◆ If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

- Bruce Coville99

◆ When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don't panic because they don't know what's going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don't know what's going on.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein99

◆ DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

- Bill Gates99

◆ I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.

- Christopher Hitchens99

◆ It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual's function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you're in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

- Timothy Leary99

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

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you're playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God's love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I've come to think that happiness isn't really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year.

- David Brooks99

◆ He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.

- Joe Hill99

◆ I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

- Margaret Mead99

◆ In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

- Daniel C. Dennett99

◆ In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

- Criss Jami99