But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

— Vernor Vinge

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

— Peter Drucker

China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

— Ma Jun

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

— Dan Quinn

Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.

— Leon Panetta

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices, and its money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information.

— Kevin Mitnick

Consciousness, rather than being an phenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space-time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.

— Deepak Chopra

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

— Michael Bolton

Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed.

— Seth Shostak

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

— Peter Ustinov