106 Information Age Quotes

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Famous Information Age Quotes

We’re living in the age of AI, where technology has the power to augment human intelligence and transform industries. — Jensen Huang

The modern age is an age of leverage. — Naval Ravikant

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age. — Tony Robbins

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. — Ronald Reagan

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages. — Bill Gates

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. — Emily Greene Balch

The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. — Marshall McLuhan

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. — John Naisbitt

The internet is the new battleground of earth, the wild west, the place of truth and opportunity. — Andrew Tate

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. — William O. Douglas

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures. — Amory Lovins

The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself". — Marshall McLuhan

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. — Jacques Ellul

We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change. —

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. - Bill Gates

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. — Bill Gates

Short Information Age Quotes

  • We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age. — Karl Pilkington
  • There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age. — Karim Rashid
  • Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. — Kent Conrad
  • Data are becoming the new raw material of business. — Craig Mundie
  • The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. — Mike Fitzpatrick
  • In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power. — John F. Kennedy
Information age quote Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been.

What Is Age Quotes

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life? — Jean Piaget

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? — Frank Costello

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. — Sylvia Plath

Information age quote Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.
Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein

Only 20 percent of our longevity is genetically determined. The rest is what we do, how we live our lives and increasingly the molecules that we take. It's not the loss of our DNA that causes aging, it's the problems in reading the information, the epigenetic noise. — David Sinclair

Aging is just like any deterioration of the body. It fulfills every category of what we call a disease except one: it impacts more than half the population. — David Sinclair

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks. — Joan Rivers

There is no upper limit to what individuals are capable of doing with their minds. There is no age limit that bars them from beginning. There is no obstacle that cannot be overcome if they persist and believe. — H. G. Wells

We used to think that aging was a lot like, as if we were cars made fresh and youthful and then we've entered this breakdown in diet. What we didn't realize until recently is that we're much more complex than a car. We fix ourselves if we're broken. — David Sinclair

On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age. — Matthew Kelly

Information Society Quotes

The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing. — Andrew Breitbart

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind — Armin Hofmann

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. — Thomas Jefferson

The three main elements of public relations are practically as old as society: informing people, persuading people, or integrating people with people. Of course, the means and methods of accomplishing these ends have changed as society has changed. — Edward Bernays

I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public. — Chelsea Manning

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. — Ruben Blades

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape. — Busta Rhymes

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent. — Myles Horton

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices. — Samuel Wilson

Digital Age Quotes

GDP statistics evolved during the Industrial Age and do not seem to be keeping up with the digital age. Thanks to productivity, real GDP growth probably is higher and inflation lower than reported, suggesting that the quality of earnings has increased significantly. — Cathie Wood

It's hard to find things that won't sell online. — Jeff Bezos

Gold is literally Neolithic stone age tech, which is impressive and shows simple robust technology can be the best store of value for millennia. bitcoin is digital gold for the next millennia. — Adam Back

In the digital age, we must continue on our European path. — Ursula von der Leyen

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles. — Jack White

Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form. — John Maeda

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model. — Bernie Sanders

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space. — Carla Hayden

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing. — Kenneth Goldsmith

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language — Marc Prensky

Information Technology Quotes

Science, as well as technology, will in the near and in the farther future increasingly turn from problems of intensity, substance, and energy, to problems of structure, organization, information, and control. — John Von Neumann

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour. — Roy Lessin

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. — Steve Ballmer

A democratic education means that we educate people in a way that ensures they can think independently, that they can use information, knowledge, and technology, among other things, to draw their own conclusions. — Linda Darling-Hammond

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. — Samuel Wilson

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. — John Doolittle

Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure. — Clay Shirky

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose. — Jerome Wiesner

Nature stuff all around us plants, animals, etc. are best thought of as basically super advanced alien technology. These are nanotechnology devices magically grown in ambient conditions with complex information processing. Synthetic bio is tinkering with hijacking this tech. — Andrej Karpathy

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More Information Age Quotes

Aging, quite simply, is a loss of information. — David Sinclair

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. — Timothy Leary

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. — Walt Disney

In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion. — J. C. R. Licklider

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number. — Dave Barry

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age. — Chris Hardwick

It is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these. — Arthur C. Clarke

In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization. — John Sculley

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. — Michael Crichton

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins. — Joseph Nye

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. — Peter Cochrane

In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age. — Tim Bishop

The irony of the information age is that it lends credibility to uninformed opinion. — Stephen Coonts

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like. — Pete du Pont

Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind. — Ai Weiwei

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies. — Paul Hawken

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. — Terence

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age. — Paul Hawken

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. — Jonathan Swift

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited. — Russell Means

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom. — Stephanie Mills

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources... — Paul Saffo

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise. — Don Tapscott

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs. — Robert Kiyosaki

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us. — Daniel Levitin

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. — Ronald Reagan

The information age is so psychotic - without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now. — Lauren Barnholdt

I think we know too much about actors as it is and their personal lives and it's this information age where we're stimulated constantly by the celebrity buzz effect or whatever it is, these web sites and blogs and different things. — Ryan Reynolds

The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools. — Unknown

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. — Michael Crichton

It's the age of information and we need to just get as informed as we can about what other things might help us live healthy lives. — Linda Hamilton

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. — William J. Perry

Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying for, or working at, or clinging to the Industrial Age idea of a safe, secure job. — Robert Kiyosaki

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. — William Perry

Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age. — Charles Stross

Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well. — Rachel Held Evans

I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so. — Hillary Clinton

Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia. — Paul Saffo

America and Japan are the two leading world economies in terms of technology and innovative products. And in software, information-age technology and biotechnology the U.S. has an amazing lead. — Bill Gates

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