Information is not knowledge, let alone wisdom. The sum of what is known is not the sum of the world.

The initial act of naming was also an act of taming.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

Information is the new language of science.

The world has become a cacophony, and the challenge of the information age is to make sense of the noise.

Just as the clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the industrial age, so the computer is the key machine of the information age.

Information is more a flood than a flow, more atmosphere than pathway.

The information produced at each stage was to be the measure of the 'value added' by the work of that stage.

The result of information becoming cheap is that attention becomes expensive.

Information defines probability; probability implies information.

The amount of information is not the important thing. It is what we do with it that counts.

The printing press created an explosion of information, but it took centuries to invent the scientific method and centuries more to build the institutions of science.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood