Information Quotes
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The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?
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Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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I think people realize now that integration and sharing information is not something that's nice to think about. It's not a luxury, it's a must, i think everybody gets that – in the national security and law enforcement side – but that doesn't mean it's easy to do.
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Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.
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What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
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I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.
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I want people in all the government agencies to be communicating with people because for me, we're in an era - which didn't exist before - where you can have instant access to information, and I want to see my government be more transparent.
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What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.
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Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.
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Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.
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In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.
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While we can all access articles and information in so many places now - across blogs, in newspapers, on video - there is something very powerful about putting it all together into an edited format in a single issue that has a narrative stretching across the themes.
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Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
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Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others need for periods of legitimate access. A lending library enables people to help themselves to information; a locked-up book collection is useful only to the person who owns it.
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Only human beings can look directly at something, have all the information they need to make an accurate prediction, perhaps even momentarily make the accurate prediction, and then say that it isn't so.
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Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
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It's important to realize that sometimes the information you need is hidden behind the information available.
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It's been my experience that the responsible press can carefully protect the identity and identifying information on the individual case while still discussing the public policy issues.
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There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
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A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.
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We have to understand there are two parts of our mind, there's the conscious and the subconscious. It's the subconscious that controls our behavior. It's the conscious mind where the intellect is resident. So the conscious mind is understanding information, but it's not internalizing it.
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The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.
