Quotes of: Information-age Keyword

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. I...

James Gleick

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated i...

Paul Hawken

The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

James Randi

Old age is a hundred disorders.

Welsh

Old age will not come alone.

Welsh

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Samuel Wilson

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

Sibel Edmonds

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Jaron Lanier

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order. Consciousness is not a complex phenomenon; it is what consciousness is _about_ that is complex. It is presumably this fact that is the reason many scientists over the decades have ...

The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

Russian

Old age is cruel for whores and magicians.

Spanish

A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era is how you think, not how you feel.

Survive Information Overload: The 7 Best Ways to Manage Your Workload by Seeing the Big Picture

The secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best ...

The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design

To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud. People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle infor...

Idries Shah, Reflections

The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cel...

James Gleick

But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it is very nearly impermissible to say, "Let me think about that" or "I don't know" or "What do you mean when you say....

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Jaron Lanier

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

Cecily Strong

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Charles K. Kao

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Diana Ross