Information Utility Quotes

In the information age, when tradition, propriety, formality or culture clash with informational ease and utility, the traditional forms must … yield.

Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a chance to apply it.

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

One copy of The [London] Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today.

I don't actually think of the internet as the bad guy. I think of the internet as doing a hell of a lot of wonderful, fascinating, interesting things. A lot of information that's exchanged on the internet is extremely useful, and every once in a while it percolates up to knowledge. Wisdom is far harder to come by.

The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record.

I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.