Information Quotes

• I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Pretty
  • Child
  • Mystery

• The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Interesting
  • Information

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Information
  • Internet

• I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

  

  George Clooney
  • Thinking
  • Ideas
  • Privacy

• You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Past

• For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Military
  • Gay

• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Information
  • Unknown

• It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Thought
  • Information

• As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Place
  • Information
  • Possible

• Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Find
  • Snake
  • Colorful

• I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Different
  • Power
  • Process

• If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • Different
  • Way

• I didn't want to send anyone down there on secondhand information.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Information
  • Send

• Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Information

• There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Kind
  • Opinion
  • Wealth

• With a standard editorial cartoon, you're taking tons of information and synthesizing it down to a single bite - a single moment in time. With animated editorial cartoons, it's more storytelling.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Time
  • Single
  • Moment

• I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Never
  • Information
  • Talk

• Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Information
  • Twitter
  • Blank

• I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Information

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Information

• Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Government
  • Information

• I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Information
  • Direction

• If people need to be informed by lines, then there's no reason why the actor is saying the line except for information for the audience; I think there's something wrong.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Why
  • Saying

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