"Information is low on the totem pole of conciousness, just a notch up from raw data and a leg up from total noise. In contrast to knowledge or wisdom or understanding, which, we imagine, well up from within or slowly blossom with time and diligence, information comes in discrete packages of data, signals bursting in from without. Information is perhaps the most worldly (even "fallen") form of knowing - newspaper listings, messages scrawled on matchbooks, coded satellite transmissions, as well as maps of systems, astrological charts, and secret names whispered in alleyways. Information is the work of the messenger Hermes, who transforms static piles of raw data into knowledge merely by transporting it to the right place at the right time."
-Erik Davis "Tongue of Fire," 'Gnosis, a journal of the western inner tradition' no. 23 (spring 1992) pg. 41