Ruth Ozeki Quotes

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

... one of the things that will distinguish businesses into this next decade is ... how they use information.... I think it'll change culture, it'll change everything that you do. And I believe it'll differentiate the winners and the losers.

If information is gathered, history shows that it will be used at some time.

People are just beginning to learn how much their own personal privacy is being invaded and that they’re losing control over their own information.

In politics, information is superabundant—what is needed is judgement and selectivity in dealing with that information.

There can be no history without archives.

You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

While most of the world's information is beginning to be stored electronically, most of the world's expertise still resides in books.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.

We are drowning in information.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

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

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

While walking in a rapid stream we cannot tread twice in the same water. Neither can we spend twice the same time. When we pass out of that door, the work of this meeting will be closed to us forever. We shall never spend the time of this evening again. Then should we not keep a record of our work, teachings, and counsel.