Andrew Vachss Quotes

Washington is a perfect realization of the upper-bracket dream of a white-collar universe, where economies run on the information juggling of the ‘creative class’ and where manufacturing is something done by filthy brutes in far-off lands.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Data is the most valuable asset in the world.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.

Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.

An economy that adds value through information, ideas, and intelligence-the Three I Economy-offers a way out of the apparent clash between material growth and environmental resources.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

The world is too full of information.

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

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.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.

Bitcoin is not currency; it's the internet of money!

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.