George Stigler Quotes
Some important aspects of important aspects of economic organization take on a new meaning when they are considered from the viewpoint of the search of information.
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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.
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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.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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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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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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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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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.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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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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Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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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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“For patients to claim a right to any procedures they wish is to challenge a conscientious physician’s integrity as a physician.”
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Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
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Some important aspects of important aspects of economic organization take on a new meaning when they are considered from the viewpoint of the search of information.
