The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
Ludwig WittgensteinTags: knowledge information problems
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret MeadTags: information beliefs
Information is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinTags: knowledge information
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
Guy BilloutTags: information mcluhan media-ecology social-technology
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill WattersonTags: humor school dumb information calvin-and-hobbes
In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge.
Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising.
Filter third for reliability. This filter protects against politicians.
Filter fourth for completeness. This filter protects against the media.
Tags: internet information filter google information-age information-overload
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan DoyleTags: theories mistake theory information data deduction
A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
George SaundersTags: understanding media news information clarity debate
But if we define the Megaphone as the composite of the hundreds of voices we hear each day that come to us from people we don't know, via high-tech sources, it's clear that a significant and ascendant component of that voice has become bottom-dwelling, shrill, incurious, ranting, and agenda-driven. It strives to antagonize us, make us feel anxious, ineffective, and alone; convince us that the world is full of enemies and of people stupider and less agreeable than ourselves; is dedicated to the idea that, outside the sphere of our immediate experience, the world works in a different, more hostile, less knowable manner. This braindead tendency is viral and manifests intermittently; while it is the blood in the veins of some of our media figures, it flickers on and off in others.
George SaundersTags: media news information propaganda anxiety information-overload antagonism
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
Daniel C. DennettTags: fanaticism information
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