J.P. Rangaswami Quotes

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

J.P. Rangaswami

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• 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
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• 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
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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.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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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.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.

  

  Naomi Wolf
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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• 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
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• Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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• 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
  • Life
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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.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Real
  • Learning
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• Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

  

  Octavio Paz
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• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Goal
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• People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

  

  Nate Silver
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• Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
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• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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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.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Business
  • Information
  • Data

• I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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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.

  

  Major Owens
  • Up
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• I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

  

  Samantha Bee
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• Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Power
  • Unity
  • Intuition

• If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Moon

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were