Clay Johnson Quotes

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

We thought the Internet would enlighten everyone, but it's given everyone access to more ignorance, and given ignorant people an opportunity to organize themselves and congregate.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

That's what's good about the digital revolution is it makes information asymmetry much harder to maintain.

The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused assets. Now when I say that, people look at me like I'm crazy because every young person we know in the world is never without media, ever.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.

We must close the digital divide.

I wasn't weaned on the web nor coddled on a computer. Instead, I grew up in a highly centralized world where news and information were tightly controlled by a few editors, who deemed to tell us what we could and should know. My two young daughters, on the other hand, will be digital natives.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.

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.

The Internet is a lose-lose situation.