Information Quotes
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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.
Jeff Bezos
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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.
Anatol Rapoport
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We in the press like to say we're honest brokers of information, and it's just not true. The press does have an agenda.
Bernard Goldberg
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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.
Seth Lloyd
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Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.
Studs Terkel
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This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.
Saxby Chambliss
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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.
Debra Dean
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I have no information whatsoever that tells me with certainty that any of the accusations, allegations, rumors, that have taken place are true.
Javier Solana
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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.
will.i.am
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An individual's ability to draw is... the ability to shift to a different-from-ordinary way of processing visual information - to shift from verbal, analytic processing to spatial, global processing.
Betty Edwards
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The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
Serge Schmemann
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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.
Chris Burkard
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Powell finishes his answer, admitting much of the information he had been given about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Keith Olbermann
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... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.
C. D. Broad
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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.
Ellen Lupton
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Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.
Danah Boyd
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Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.
David Holmgren
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There's always the possibility that, if there's sufficient uncertainty that we may choose to pause simply to gain more information, to learn better what the true risks are and how the economy's actually evolving.
Ben Bernanke
