Information Quotes

• In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the universal occurrence of biological evolution. Further, few natural processes have been more convincingly explained than evolution by the theory of natural selection, or as it has been popularly called, Darwinism.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Atheism

• In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.

  

  Michael Kinsley
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Journalist

• People are more likely to support a change when they have information on it and when they participate in it. So, getting the CHRO information about the transformation and involving the CHRO in the transformation effort are critical to success.

  

  Dave Ulrich
  • People
  • Support
  • Transformation

• If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Biblical
  • No Doubt
  • Christian Life

• In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

  

  Albert Speer
  • Information
  • Activities
  • Camp

• If you're more than three feet away from a housefly, it can't see you.

  

  L. M. Boyd
  • Information
  • Feet
  • Three

• My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Spirit

• Words that may be firm in information can be soft in spirit.

  

  William Craig Zwick
  • May
  • Words
  • Spirit

• We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

  

  Michael Oxley
  • Technology
  • Spread
  • Deployment

• Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world.

  

  Andrea Suarez Paz
  • Information
  • Films
  • Source

• Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  

  Bernard Haisch
  • Search
  • Evidence
  • Surprising

• Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Process
  • Evolve
  • Register

• People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Reading
  • Information

• With Android One, we not only want to help people get online, we want to make sure that when they get there, they can tap into the wealth of information and knowledge the web holds for everyone.

  

  Sundar Pichai
  • People
  • Helping
  • Wealth

• There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Activities
  • Phone Number
  • Dial

• Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Need
  • Switzerland
  • Coctail Parties

• What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

  

  John Warnock
  • Problems
  • Information
  • Technologies

• Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. "Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Plans
  • Gains
  • Okay

• It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • World
  • Internet
  • Representation

• The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Theory
  • Measure
  • Flow

• The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.

  

  Amy Morin
  • Sleep
  • Information
  • Ability

• There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet.

  

  Steve Chen
  • Problem
  • Information
  • Discovery

• The reasons for the failure of the Leninist economic model have been studied thoroughly and in the case of North Korea they were essentially the same as elsewhere: distorted price information, lack of incentives for innovation and quality improvement, and an ingrained inability to handle data efficiently.

  

  Andrei Lankov
  • Improvement
  • Inability
  • Distorted

• I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Problem
  • Information
  • Facebook

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