Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no.

Clifford Stoll's Popular Quotes

Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between info…

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Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

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I spend almost as much time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as I do actually using it.

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If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if yo…

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There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

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Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

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Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

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The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

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The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once…

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