People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
—A. J. Liebling
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
—David Brinkley
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
—Franklin P. Adams
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
—Gertrude Stein
To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures—our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity.
—Thomas Moore
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
—Samuel Johnson
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
—Oscar Wilde
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
—Atul Gawande