Hubert Burda Quotes

Information has become the fundamental element of modern life.

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.

What the interconnected age in which we live allows us to do is instantly connect with each other.

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

The Internet is such... it's so not real. But it's big and it feels big when you're on it.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now the real world is an escape from the internet.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

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

We live by information, not by sight.

The world is too full of information.

In cyberspace things are built out of light.

Today, everything is about speed and real time. We are no longer concerned with real space.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge. What turns the gears in our brains isn't information, but ideas, inventions, and inspiration. Knowledge-not information-implies understanding. And beyond knowledge lies what we should be seeking: wisdom.

I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles.

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

Information is alienated experience.