Information Filtering Quotes

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

The politicians are not the only people who are in their own silos. Many of our citizens only watch or listen to the news that they want to hear, and if there is anything else, they turn it off. We all need to listen to the people who are on the other side.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

I'm playing for the Red Sox, and I don't think there's anybody out here who's going to intentionally hurt you. So you listen to information, and you kind of filter what you like and take out what you don't.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

Not every item of news should be published: rather those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

The cure to information overload is more information.

Curation is everything.

Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The thing with newspapers is that they are a filter. We're relying on the editors of that paper to be a filter and to tell you that this is worth reading about, this is quality, and this is quite reliable.

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

Over the years, I've evolved a somewhat heretical but time-and mind-saving approach to books, articles, editorials that deal with weighty matters. More often than not, by beginning at the end and contemplating the conclusions, one can determine if it's worth going through the whole to get there.

The mass media in the days of newspapers and television it's hard to be able to find a story that's about just what you're interested in at the time you're interested in it.

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict the things we can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reports tell you what your subordinates want you to know.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.