William Pollard Quotes

I think it's true we look forward to enormous amounts of information, but I think we would be better off if we thought about the kinds of wisdom and thoughtfulness that we need in order to handle the amount of information ahead.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

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.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

The Pentagon suffers from too much Intelligence. They can't use what they get because there is too much collected. It would almost be better if they didn't have it because it's difficult to find out what's important.

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

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.