Information Quotes
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That means any outcome is a good outcome, because it yields new information.
Edwin Catmull
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I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.
Hillary Clinton
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You had to get on the ground with your troops to see and hear what was happening. You have to soak up firsthand information for your instincts to operate accurately. Besides, it’s too easy to be crisp, cool, and detached at 1, 500 feet; too easy to demand the impossible of your troops; too easy to make mistakes that are fatal only to those souls far below in the mud, the blood, and the confusion.
Hal Moore
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Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.
Bill Clinton
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I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.
Hilary Mantel
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Google serves all of humanity with information within milliseconds.
Steven Levy
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Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount of information comes from the amount by which something reduces uncertainty...The higher the [information] entropy, the more information there is. It turns out to be a value capable of measuring a startling array of things- from the flip of a coin to a telephone call, to a Joyce novel, to a first date, to last words, to a Turing test...Entropy suggests that we gain the most insight on a question when we take it to the friend, colleague, or mentor of whose reaction and response we're least certain. And it suggests, perhaps, reversing the equation, that if we want to gain the most insight into a person, we should ask the question of qhose answer we're least certain... Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
Brian Christian
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I can assure all Americans that the best decision is going to be made based on all of the information presented to the president.
Reince Priebus
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
Seth Godin
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This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.
Evgeny Morozov
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In a series of elegant studies Stickgold and his colleagues showed that the sleeping brain can even make sense out of information whose relevance is unclear while we are awake and integrate it into the larger memory system.
Bessel van der Kolk
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The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.
Chip Heath
