Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Quotes
Economists should study financial markets as they actually operate, not as they assume them to operate—observing the way in which information is actually processed, observing the serial correlations, bonanzas, and sudden stops, not assuming these away as noise around the edges of efficient and rational markets.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.
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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.
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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.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
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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.
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Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.
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Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.
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When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.
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Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.
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Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
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Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.
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Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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Economists should study financial markets as they actually operate, not as they assume them to operate—observing the way in which information is actually processed, observing the serial correlations, bonanzas, and sudden stops, not assuming these away as noise around the edges of efficient and rational markets.
