Crucial Quote by Anatol Rapoport

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

— Norbert Wiener

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

— Spider Robinson

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

— Michael McFaul

“When we see new ways of displaying data, we should be careful not to confuse presentation with substance”

— David Sumpter

It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on…

— Terence McKenna

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Information by itself is meaningless until it’s interpreted and analyzed to capture insight and harness innovation.”

— Pearl Zhu

“What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity…

— Edward R. Tufte

Power is the capacity to distort information

— Honore De Balzac

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory,…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Considering the elaborate circumstantiality of detail observable in the item, it seems to me that it ought to contain more information than it does.…

— Mark Twain

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

— James Agee