Information Quotes - Page 16

• The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

  Thomas Campbell

  Real, Fundamentals, Consciousness

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• How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

  James Heywood

  Changed, Consumers

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• Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.

  Robert Heller

  Enormous, Booze, Difficulty

  "Research in light of a dark tunnel". Audit AGB research. London, Spring 1973.

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• Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

  Dan Brown

  Pyramids, Facts, Accepted

  Dan Brown (2006). “Deception Point”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

  John Maynard Keynes

  Atheism, Wells, Position

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• Our ability to understand ourselves is now expanding beyond the information that we can receive from our five senses. We're becoming aware of ourselves as more than minds and bodies. We are becoming aware of ourselves as souls while we simultaneously have personalities and walk upon the earth. That is the huge transformation that is reshaping the human experience - the expansion of our perceptual capability beyond the five senses. We're becoming multisensory.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• I love to work this way - I love the time of preparation. If you feed yourself with all the information and you get to understand who the character is then you can really be her.

  Marion Cotillard

  Character, Preparation, Way

  "Public Enemies - Marion Cotillard interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.

  James Frey

  Thinking, Voice, Done

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• 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

  Availability, People, Records

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I obtained confidential information in the same way government employees did, and I did it all without even touching a computer. ... I was so successful with this line of attack that I rarely had to go towards a technical attack.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Successful, Government, Touching

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Encounters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of things, I think these social-networking platforms are unprecedented.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Mean, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Thhe essence of documentary filmmaking is how you manipulate the material to create an emotional impact, as opposed to just delivering information.

  Richard Ray Perez

  Emotional, Impact, Essence

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

  Lucrecia Martel

  Film Music, Consumption, Can Not

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where it's like, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," but what happened in Puerto Rico never happened at all. It's not like there was a decades-long conspiracy. It's just the aggregation of all these historical forces made it difficult for this information to exist in one place.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Ocean, Vegas, Islands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

  Clifford Stoll

  Information Is Power, Years, Community

  Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Data, Anxiety, Black

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• When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

  Markus Zusak

  Ideas, Giving, Stories

  "Interview with Markus Zusak, Author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 24, 2010.

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• Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Intellectual, Tasks

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• All knowledge is gained through an orderly loss of information.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Loss, Orderly

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• Information consists of differences that make a difference.

  Gregory Bateson

  Differences, Making A Difference

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• We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Two, People

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.89, Penguin

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• The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.

  Thomas Merton

  Blessing, Race, Together

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it.

  Conan O'Brien

  Two, Way, Nobody Knows

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• Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is, it could have been far longer had I gone with an omniscient third-person narrator, or multiple point-of-view characters, since either of those would have enabled me to impart much more detailed information about the history and geography of the world.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Character, Issues

  Source: www.avclub.com

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