Information Quotes
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One thing that the Internet has created is the sense that information is at your fingertips, when it's really only a very, very limited, specific, and slanted kind of information.
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Not all information is beneficial.
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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.
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What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.
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Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information. .... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan. ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.
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A lot of information that people are looking for, you have to remind them that it’s really easy to find on Google.
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The key with blogging is to lay it all out there because sooner or later people are going to know what you know, so might as well be the first one to share the information and get credit for it.
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Powell finishes his answer, admitting much of the information he had been given about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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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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An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.
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All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.
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The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
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Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.
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If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.
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I don't know if commerce can every truly be information. I think that's just commerce, that's just selling you something.
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I think that in an age where so much information is flying through cyberspace, we all have to be aware of the fact that some information which is sensitive, which does affect the security of individuals and relationships, deserves to be protected and we will continue to take necessary steps to do so.
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I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.
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I do not have the information - I do not have the competence - to ask the countries how they have handled these questions.
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Make information free for all.
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Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
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The British government has not given us any information about the plane crash, if they have information and they are not presenting it that is shocking.
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This information does not correspond to reality.
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Paranoia is just having the right information.
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Information work is thinking work.
