W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.W. J. T. Mitchell
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
Patrick Soon-Shiong -
TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.
Jack Dorsey -
I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.
Forest Whitaker -
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.
Feist
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To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
Carl Honore -
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
J.P. Rangaswami -
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
Abbie Hoffman -
There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
Imogen Heap -
The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
Balaji Srinivasan -
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Joanne Rowling
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
J Mascis -
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
Larry Page -
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
C. J. Cherryh -
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
Omar Bongo -
There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
Jackie Speier
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I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve.
Dan Hill -
I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
Saffron Burrows -
I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.
Charlie Jane Anders -
Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen.
Stephen Ambrose -
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.
W. J. T. Mitchell