Information Value Quotes

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

The function of good journalism is to take information and add value to it.

Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

Not all bits have equal value.

So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Not all information is beneficial.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.