Useless Information Quotes

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

Useless, a superficial mindless recitation of what we know from the daily press.

I find the idea of the recap page to be something of a waste. It's the page nobody ever reads and it's even worse because it doesn't tell you who anybody really is.

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

We teach and test things most students have no interest in and will never need, and facts that they can Google and will forget as soon as the test is over

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

Slide decks are only as great as their giant, useless appendixes, so make sure yours has a ton of useless, not even remotely relevant slides in it. You'll look like you really did your research.

Tax returns give you nothing. Tax returns give you no information.

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.