Attributes Quote by Anatol Rapoport

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

— John Poindexter

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all…

— Michael Polanyi

“Information, as narrowly defined by Shannon, concerns the predictability of a message source. In the real world, however, information is something that is analyzed…

— Melanie Mitchell

Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system…

— Richard Pascale

The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the…

— Gene Youngblood

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to…

— Edward R. Murrow

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it…

— D. B. Weiss

Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.

— Sean Stephenson

Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information'…

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of…

— Bryan Appleyard

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all…

— Gunter Grass