Information Quotes - Page 23

• I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein. But, naturally, I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Thinking, Iraq, Mass Destruction

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2004.

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• The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them.

  Elliott Abrams

  Effort, Administration, Maintaining

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• Expert estimates of probability are often off by factors of hundreds or
  thousands. [...] I used to be annoyed when the margin of error was high in
  a forecasting model that I might put together. Now I view it as perhaps the
  single most important piece of information that a forecaster provides. When
  we publish a forecast on FiveThirtyEight, I go to great lengths to document
  the uncertainty attached to it, even if the uncertainty is sufficiently
  large that the forecast won't make for punchy headlines.

  Nate Silver

  Views, Errors, Annoyed

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• Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Insecure, Thinking, Self

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Believe, Book, School

  "Writing to the moment" by Tom Paulin, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2004.

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• When we move beyond information toward transformation, we savor the truth of seeking to do life "under the Word" as the ancients have taught.

  William Anthony Donohue

  Moving, Taught, Transformation

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• Acknowledging weakness doesn't make a leader less effective. On the contrary, in most cases it is simply a way of expressing that he understands what everyone else has known for some time. When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of your team, it is never new information.

  Andy Stanley

  Team, Leader, Weakness

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.23, Multnomah

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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.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Uncomfortable, Feels, Humans

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• Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

  Norbert Wiener

  Energy, Matter

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• Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data.

  Paul Ryan

  Rip, Men, Data

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• Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy.

  Mark Levin

  Mean, Past, Information Knowledge

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people are oblivious to F.A. Hayek's insight that the critical information needed to run an economy - or even 15 percent of one - doesn't exist in any one place where it is accessible to central planners. Instead, it is scattered piecemeal among millions of people. All those people put together are far wiser and better informed than Congress could ever be. Only markets - private property, free exchange and the price system - can put this knowledge at the disposal of entrepreneurs and consumers, ensuring the system will serve the people and not just the political class.

  John Stossel

  Running, Class, People

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

  John Stossel

  Party, Believe, Ideas

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Current government regulation interferes with honest voluntary exchanges by imposing arbitrary terms and requiring tons of paperwork disclosing information no one wants anyway.

  John Stossel

  Government, Arbitrary, Want

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• Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

  Jerome Bruner

  Joy, Able, Figures

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”

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• For you to believe that there is no major world conspiracy which involves a small number of people manipulating humanity through a hierarchical structure of control toward a New World Order, shows you have, in actual fact, not looked genuinely into the abundance of well-researched information on world conspiracy to see if there is one!

  David Icke

  Believe, Numbers, Order

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• The market gives you the opportunity to arbitrage what the emotional investor will pay or sell at versus the fundamental value of a company, but you've got to pull the trigger promptly without hesitating. We've disciplined ourselves mentally and prepared ourselves in terms of information, as well as relationships with brokers, to do that.

  Richard Chandler

  Emotional, Opportunity, Giving

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• The only way to test a hypothesis is to look for all the information that disagrees with it.

  Karl Popper

  Looks, Tests, Way

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• My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came from or what it related to. I have to supply him with way more supplementary information than I ever have to supply my female friends.

  Heidi Julavits

  Husband, Accusing Me, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But obviously, things have changed in many ways since the '50s, when the show is started, in terms of sexuality, and how much access we have to images of it and information about it. But, the same problems always apply. It doesn't matter whether we know a lot more about sex now or if there's a lot more access to it. The same problems of intimacy, of dealing with other people, of connecting and being vulnerable with other people, which is what the show is ultimately about, still applies now, I think.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The surgeon general is responsible for sharing scientifically-based information with the public so that they can improve their health. But I will say personally that my goal as surgeon general is to help build a culture of prevention in America so that we are a nation that is as good at preventing illness as we are at treating it.

  Vivek Murthy

  America, Goal, Culture

  "Not My Job: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy Gets Quizzed On 'General Hospital'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 25, 2015.

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• I listened more than I asked. There's a lot of information online, so many Youtube videos, countless interviews with all those obvious questions that were all answered for me. I just wanted to absorb her essence. I wanted to see the details, she has such mad style. I just wanted to see - the way she communicates with her hands, these gestures, her smile, how she moves through space.

  Vera Farmiga

  Moving, Essence, Space

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• A trajectory of misery – at this point – seems intentional.
  We have all the information we need to see clearly.
  We are no longer unaware toddlers on the landscape of consciousness.
  It is no longer cute to crap ourselves.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Cute, Needs, Landscape

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• While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.

  Jane Cleland

  Character, People, Trying

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• My philosophy about journalism is simple - that we have a job to hold those in power accountable, to give voice to the voiceless, and to provide people with information that they can use to make informed decisions about what policies they want enacted in their name and what policies they don't.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Jobs, Philosophy, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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