Information Quotes

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

~ Renée Fleming

Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.

~ Laurene Powell Jobs

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

~ Tony Robbins

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

~ Chris Hardwick

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

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives.

~ Linda Hamilton

Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.

~ Sugata Mitra

It used to cost money to disclose and distribute information. In the digital age it costs money not to.

~ Heather Brooke

People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.

~ Robert Darnton

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

~ Henry Kissinger

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

~ Brian Greene

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

~ John Mccarthy

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

~ Robert Mueller

Since the tragedies, the Department of Homeland Security was established to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, and most importantly, to share intelligence information among government agencies and departments.

~ Randy Forbes

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

~ Gijs De Vries

The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.

~ Elliott Abrams

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information through Soviet foreign intelligence channels.

~ Vladimir Putin

Intelligence collection is not confined to the communications of adversaries or of the guilty. Rather, it's about gaining information otherwise unavailable that would help keep Americans safe and free.

~ Michael Hayden

Judy, we think that since the 11th of September, 2001, we've faced a similar heightened threat level. And we've been enhancing both the exchange of intelligence and security information and the assessment of that information, because that's the crucial element.

~ David Blunkett

We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

~ Condoleezza Rice

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

~ Bob Beckel

Ever since 9/11, our intelligence agencies, as part of the 'war on terror,' have expanded their operations to include American citizens. I was 'terrorized' when I learned that the National Security Agency was intercepting information on Americans.

~ Bob Beckel

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

~ Edward Snowden

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

~ Mike Rogers

The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we have, including intelligence information.

~ Warren Christopher

I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some intelligence information that leads us to know some things about what's going on in Iraq that we haven't revealed to others.

~ Lawrence Eagleburger

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

~ Jim Sensenbrenner

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

~ Bob Graham

Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

~ Jim Ramstad

With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

~ Bryan Fuller

But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

~ Vernor Vinge

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

~ Stephen Cambone

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

~ Tony Scott

Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

~ Michael Arrington

Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

~ Martha Beck

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

~ Nate Silver

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

~ Diane Abbott

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

~ Nathan Deal

Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.

~ Ashton Kutcher