For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. Benjamin Franklin
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T S Eliot
This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now? Steve Jobs
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about. H P Lovecraft
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. Bill Gates
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. Russell Baker
It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years. Stephen Hawking
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E O Wilson
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. Henry A Wallace
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility. Robin Morgan
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. John Locke
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another. Richard P Feynman
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. Jonathan Swift
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. Spiro T Agnew
Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo. J Edgar Hoover
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhan
I don’t edit information. I follow it. David Icke
He who controls information controls our sense of possibility. David Icke, Oxford Union Debating Society 2008
Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It’s a cacophony. It’s like a madness I think that’s been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. Martin Scorsese
American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they’re not given the information. Tim Robbins
Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information. Tim Berners-Lee
I don’t think there’s any information to be gotten from television. David Mamet
True information does good. Julian Assange
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world’s greatest libraries – indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. Peter Singer
Information. The most dangerous thing to ask for. The most dangerous thing to give up. The Killing Machine 2010 aka Icarus starring Dolph Lundgren & Stefanie von Pfetten & Samantha Ferris & David Lewis & Lindsay Maxwell & Bo Svenson & Monique Ganderton et al, director Dolph Lundgren, Eddie inspects sliced bodies
Your price is dependent on the quality of information. Complicit 2013 starring David Oyelowo & Arsher Ali & Rupert Proctor & Wahab Sheikh & Asheq Akhtar & Kaleem Janjua & Nasser Memarzia & Olivia Sparks & Paul Ritter & Denise Gough et al, director Niall MacCormick, spy to Mr Omar
He’s carrying on him some microfilm that’s got the results of the latest Russian space tests – that is the kind of information that could determine who’s going to get to the moon first. The Defector 1966 starring Montgomery Clift & Hardy Kruger & Roddy McDowell & Macha Meril & David Opatoshu & Christine Delaroche & Hannes Messemer & Karl Lieffen et al, director Raoul Levy, McDowell
Information The Key To Prosperity: Ministry of Information. Brazil 1985 starring Jonathan Pryce & Robert De Niro & Katherine Helmond & Ian Holm & Bob Hoskins & Michael Palin & Kim Griest & Bob Hoskins & Jim Broadbent et al, director Terry Gilliam, sign
If you come back with information, Captain Darling will pump you thoroughly in the debriefing room. Blackadder Goes Forth: Plan E – General Hospital, Melchett to Blackadder, BBC 1989
Government bureaucrats are keeping massive databases of information on all of us. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! Patriot Act s3e7, Showtime 2005
Information is power. J Edgar 2011 starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Judi Dench & Armie Hammer & Naomi Watts & Josh Lucas & Ed Westwick & Dermot Mulroney & Damon Herriman & Jeffrey Donovan & Ed Westwick & Zach Grenier et al, director Clint Eastwood, Hoover’s commentary
The basic purpose of FOIA is to ensure a informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and to hold the governors accountable to the governed. United States Supreme Court NLRB v Robbins Tire Co 437 US 214, 242 1978
When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs, distrustful of those who manage them, and – eventually – incapable of determining their own destinies. Richard M Nixon
The overarching purpose of access to information legislation … is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways: it helps to ensure first that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry. Gerard LaForest, Dagg v Canada 1997
Television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’ by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation ... Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing. Neil Postman
These days we are constantly told we live in an information society. On the contrary, I believe we live in a media society in which there may appear to be saturation information but in reality it’s information that is repetitive, controlled and above all safe. John Pilger, lecture July 1996, ‘The Hidden Power of the Media’