Terry Semel Quotes

Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.

Much is published, but little printed.

Turns out, there's not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.

At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.

Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.

When I start running my mouth, I start running facts. I start giving guys numbers. I start giving guys ideas of where I come from and where I work.

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.

As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

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

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

We live by information, not by sight.

Data is not intelligence.

Information is power. --Humfrey

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

Information is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?

Every library is an arsenal.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

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.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.