Information Quotes
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Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.
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Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.
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One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
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The term, information at your fingertips, is to remind people what a broad role the personal computer will be playing. It's not a computation device, it's not a word processing or a spreadsheet device. It's a window onto the world of information.
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But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
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Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
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What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
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To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.
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Information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke’s household, the last thing.
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When you're in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment of the confidence factor, which is a by-product of a losing streak. You have to work very hard to restore that confidence, and cutting back trading size helps achieve that goal.
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Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.
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Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
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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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The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
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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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[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
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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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In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
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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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Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.
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The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.
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When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.
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There is a complete lack of timely and reliable information for both competitors and consumers.
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There is a lot of information to know, but I prepare for the NFL Draft by coming to work every day.
