Data Quote by Mark Rosenfelder

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

— Jerry Pournelle

In any decision situation, the amount of relevant information available is inversely proportional to the importance of the decision.

— Paul Dickson

“A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.... Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“50% of something is a whole lot more than a 100% of nothing.”

— Phil Pustejovsky

Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

— Abbie Hoffman

“Scientists now know the brain receives 400 billion bits of information each second. To give you some idea of just how much information that…

— Pam Grout

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

— Jim Rohn

“the whole can contain less information than the sum of its parts—and sometimes even less than one of its parts!”

— Max Tegmark

“Too much information creates the same result as too little:”

— David Allen

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

— Richard Saul Wurman

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

— James Taylor

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

— Claude Shannon