Bill Murray Quotes

I do sometimes lecture people about what they're eating, but that's only if they ask me.

Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also a smugness to most open letters: a sense that we, as the writers of such letters, know better than those to whom the letters are addressed. We will impart our opinions to you, with or without your consent.

Internet news cycles are by the minute, and any fool can take a headline from the Associated Press and send it out as news.

Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.

The democratization of news is fine and splendid, but it's not reporting. It's based on a fragment of information picked up from television or the web, and people are sounding off about something that's not necessarily true.

Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

The internet has spawned people for whom knowingness is more important than knowledge. It equips you with the illusion of offering knowledge instantly - and quite easily - so you can read a few articles on a few subjects and feel well informed but not actually know any of those subjects in any depth.

In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

We give nothing so freely as advice.

It's very difficult to get to the truth and ironically, in the Information Age, which we would have thought meant channels to the truth is in fact obfuscating the truth.

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything.

Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

It is an incredible thing to see how many crazy things get thrown out that people then often write commentaries about how happy they are or how disappointed they are about something that's completely false. But, it's a lot of noise, frankly.

With the Internet there is even more fractioning since we are in echo chambers. With so much propaganda it is hard to calm down enough to listen.

He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.

Looking back, I still can't believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of 'experts' all contradicting one another, all trying to seem more 'shocking' and 'in-depth' than the last one. It was all so confusing, nobody seemed to know what to do.

Golf tips are like aspirin. One may do you good, but if you swallow the whole bottle you will be lucky to survive.

Nobody likes to be preached to.

I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem.