Wednesday, September 07, 2005

More Information Quotes

Here are more quotes about information (from Rick):

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge — where it is written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking something up and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Samuel Johnson

Research means that you don’t know, but are willing to find out. - Charles F. Kettering
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. - Benjamin Disraeli

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” -Albert Einstein

“The stone age was marked by man’s clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man’s crude use of clever tools.”-?

“Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the ‘information age’ we are entering” -?

“In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.” -?

“Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind” -Marshall McLuhan