Quotes of: Information-age Keyword

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Thinking Skills - Using Your Brain in the Information Age

We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times: A Collection of All Original Essays from Today's (and Tomorrow's) Young Authors on the State of the Art --and the Art of the Hustle--in the Age of Information Overload

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job.

Robert Kiyosaki

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

collecting secrets was and is crucial to solving foreign policy puzzles.

Reshaping National Intelligence for an Age of Information

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing i...

Lev Grossman

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short...

Thomas Haden Church

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

Caleb Carr

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

Heather Brooke

Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

Chris Bell

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Charlie Sheen

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

Li Keqiang

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan

Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they’re super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from the limitations of ...

Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload

In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge. Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising. Filter third for reliability. This fi...

David's Sling

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Torture when inflicted on children becomes indefensible. Even among those who believe that torture is a defensible practice to extract information, the case for inflicting pain and abuse upon children proves impossible to support.

Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept is also present in the art and literature of the age, notably in the poems of William Blake. The Romantic movement...

Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

Dave Barry