Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Quotes
Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
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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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What we now call the browser is whatever defines the web. What fits in the browser is the World Wide Web and a number of trivial standards to handle that so that the content comes.
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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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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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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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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.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.
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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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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
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History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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Do not be fooled by one who recites the Quran. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.
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In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.
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We want people to leave the show thinking, 'Man, those socialists are a sexy bunch and they can dance, too'.
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Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.
