Information Quotes - Page 22

• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

  Dave Barry

  Ideas, Irs, Tolls

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• What I have done is packaged the time-honored information into a process that is doable and has inspired millions to act on it.

  Dave Ramsey

  Done, Inspired, Process

  Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

  Tim Wu

  Technology, Typical, Hobbies

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Space, Substitutes, Labor

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• The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Growing Up, Children

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• We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

  Angelina Jolie

  People, Suffering, Facts

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• The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moving, Technology, People

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• Good profiles mentioned characteristics that would probably be true for all of us, such as: "I want someone who will make me laugh." About Me sections with fewer than a hundred words tend to be clearly popular. Short profiles that express just enough information to pique someone's interest work best.

  Amy Webb

  Laughing, Pique, Want

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• Content pays an ongoing information annuity that other forms of marketing simply do not.

  Jay Baer

  Marketing, Ongoing, Pay

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• Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Civilization, World

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• Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Worry, Focus, Gains

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• The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

  Leroy Hood

  Views, Biology, Majors

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• The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Giving, Over You

  "Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

  Arundhati Roy

  Data, Gathering, World

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• If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

  Ricardo Semler

  Thinking, Organization, Tools

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• Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ambition, Mind

  "Chapter 8: Lines: Untitled", www.theguardian.com. November 14, 1985.

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• As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.206, New York Review of Books

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• Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Teacher, Children, Communication

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• The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

  Ted Cruz

  Freedom, Data Collection, Government

  "Posturing on the National Security Agency ruling" by Jennifer Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. May 7, 2015.

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• All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Political, Patterns, Interdependence

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Sorry, Years

  "Huckabee defends Bush on Iraq -- but doesn't want his Apple Watch" By Maeve Reston, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2015.

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• A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

  Clive Thompson

  Powerful, Thinking, Talking

  "Interview: Clive Thompson's 'Smarter Than You Think'". Interview with Michael Agger, www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2013.

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• A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh.

  Lisa Gansky

  Roots, Choices, Tools

  Lisa Gansky (2010). “The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing”, p.10, Penguin

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