I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder or at least my biggest blunder in science.
I think that the Information Age is great but there's a downside to it obviously as well and it's that false information can be perpetuated so quickly. And it's sad that so many people will believe it.
Informed by our sad experience of history we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States.
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people with respect to our political interests than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful and if you give the kid the right information it can be very useful to the family.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth as was demonstrated with Watergate we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious contemptuous even of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival who will reduce their profits so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs unless they're extremely well informed.
I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
I am of mixed minds about the issue of privacy. On one hand I understand that information is power and power is well power so keeping your private information to yourself is essential - especially if you are a controversial figure a celebrity or a dissident.
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.
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
This revolution the information revoultion 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?
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways which informs my politics.
My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass for new things to happen to us we want to hold on to certain moments we don't want our lives to end.
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance like a signpost or a warning notice.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now throwing information at you making everything available to you and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.
I can promise you that women working together - linked informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.