sequence
of symbols, or it is the meaning that can be interpreted from such a message or collection of messages. Information can be recorded or transmitted. It can be recorded as signs
, or conveyed as signals by wave
s. Information is any kind of event that affects the state
of a dynamic system
.
Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.
Wisdom is dead. Long live information.
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
In 2007, for the first time ever, more information was generated in one year than had been produced in the entire previous five thousand years - the period since the invention of writing.