Information Delivery Quotes

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.

If I have news and sit on it I'm not doing my job.

So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.

For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

I have always attempted to create images that deliver the maximum amount of information about the subject.

The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.

I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio.

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially... They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure he understands it.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

My vision when we started Google 15 years ago was that eventually you wouldn't have to have a search query at all. You'd just have information come to you as you needed it. And Google Glass is now, 15 years later, sort of the first form factor that I think can deliver that vision.

If you're on TV regularly, doing a thing regularly, whether you're Anthony Anderson on 'Black-ish' or Don Lemon, an hour a night, you have to turn into, 'What's the delivery system through which I can deliver information?' I don't mean they are being fake or that they are doing something that's disingenuous.

Presidents get to decide how their intelligence is served up to them, and it's the job of intelligence to adjust.

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.