Data Quote by Michael Craig-Martin

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides

— William James

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

— Michael Craig-Martin

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

— Francis Galton

Information is only useful when it can be understood

— Muriel Cooper

In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?

— Hans Christian von Baeyer

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

— John Maynard Smith

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

— Henry David Thoreau

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

— Richard Saul Wurman

For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.

— Heather Brooke

By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

“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