Information Quotes
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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
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Oh, I think they're completely misleading. I think they present misleading information on almost every issue they ran on.
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Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. lthough many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
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The information is in the people, not in your head.
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Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.
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Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.
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The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.
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This information does not correspond to reality.
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New research into cognitive functioning - how the brain works - proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information.
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In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought.
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When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
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It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.
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Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.
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If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.
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The glut of information that is spayed at us on a daily basis is an important factor in the formation of our ideologies, and it's not even actually happening in front of us.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.
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A problem of future research is to clarify how young children learn what type of social comparative information is most useful for efficacy evaluation.
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The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.
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Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.
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The more armed we are with information about the seduction of technology, the more we can build systems to better deal with it. I had no idea that I got a hit of dopamine, which is the pleasure hormone that also governs addiction, every time that little email bing goes off.
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The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.
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I take the sealed envelope from him—the one that holds the information about my biological father. I ask him for his cigarette lighter. He hands it to me. I look at Sam and Fito and say, “Word for the day.” Sam understands and says, “Nurture.” I take the unopened envelope. I am watching myself as I take the lighter and place it over the edge of the paper. I am watching the envelope burn. I am watching the ashes floating up to the heavens. I am hearing myself as I tell my father, “I know who my father is. I have always known.” And now I am laughing. And my dad is laughing. And Fito is smiling that incredible smile of his. We are watching Sam dance around the yard as Maggie follows her and jumps up and barks. Sam is shouting out to me and the morning sky, “Your name is Salvador! Your name is Salvador! Your name is Salvador!
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The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.
