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What We Are Quotes We'd Like to Share with You "The original root of the word "information" is the Latin word
informare, which means to fashion, shape, or create, to give form
to. Information is an idea that has been given a form, such as
the spoken or written word. It is a means of representing an image
or thought so that it can be communicated from one mind to another.
Rather than worrying about all the information afloat in the world,
we must ask ourselves what matters to us, what do we want to know.
It's having ideas and learning to deal with issues that is important,
not accumulating lots and lots of data." "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the
attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates
a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently
among the overabundance of information sources that might consume
it." "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge
we have lost in information?" "I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired
by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
"The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital
resource of our society." "Humans may be defined as the animal that can say "I," that can
be aware of themseves as a separate entity." "There are many people who have no desire to do anything differently
than anyone else. And that's fine. We need to have people who
are technically expert: people who play wonderful third fiddle,
if you will, or people who carry out what we call normal experiments
in science (ones which sort of fill in the tiny little holes which
were left by the great creators). But some people want to push
beyond that. And that's a personality kind of thing. It's nothing
to do with how smart they are. It's whether they're the kinds
of people who like to confront obstacles. Only people who've got
that kind of irritation...irritability...where they're not satisfied
just to do what other people want to do, but who really want to
put themselves on the line and take a risk and face the void of
going beyond where other people have gone who have any chance
of being creative." "If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one
week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary.
But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic." "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get
as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you
won't come up with a handful of mud either." "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those
poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they
live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." "A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth
even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity
is always landing." "The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain
new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them" "It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and another to
hear." "Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good
business. It means that you can attract better employees and that
customers will know what you stand for and like you for it." "In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions
every three weeks." |
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