Information Quotes - Page 31

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Country, Men, Opinion

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• There are many random, unprotected sites online that appear safe to use and are ready to accept credit card information. You wouldn't give a stranger off the street your credit card information, so be extra cautious about who you are sharing it with online.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Giving, Cards, Use

  "How to Leverage the Web to Improve Your Personal Finances" by Alexa von Tobel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2010.

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• We all have loads of information. What an actor does is bring it to the surface. I jump without a net because that's how I am. The information comes out because I am brave enough to allow it. I'm not brave as a human being in everyday life. I'm brave when I'm acting.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Brave, Everyday, Acting

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• Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Silence, Excess

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• When you acknowledge your weaknesses to the rest of the team, it is never new information.

  Andy Stanley

  Team, Weakness, Acknowledge

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• If you memorize the periodic table it will speed you up if you're a chemist, but by and large, the reason you have a periodic table is so that you can store that information outside of your body. That way it frees up some part of your brain to do something else...

  Bill Nye

  Brain, Body, Tables

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• That's what makes a human a human, if we store information outside our bodies.

  Bill Nye

  Body, Stores, Humans

  "Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb". Interview with Wilson Rothman, gizmodo.com. March 19, 2010.

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• There's a deformity in the information that the public in the United Statesis receiving. It's contained in kind of a bubble and one day this bubble will explode.

  Rula Jebreal

  One Day, Receiving, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information].

  Will Smith

  Children, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Facebook is all about information and helping people share it.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  People, Helping, Share

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• It's important not to be afraid ego-wise to share your information.

  Phil Ramone

  Wise, Ego, Important

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• There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

  Clifford Stoll

  Differences, Savvy, Access

  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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• If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Thinking, Research, Study

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

  David Gelernter

  Media, Ideas, Office

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• The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

  Steve Jobs

  Successful, People, Enough

  "Steve Jobs: The Apple Co-Founder's Most Memorable Quotes", www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 6, 2011.

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• One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina calls the magic mushrooms, or anything else for everyone. I find that certain substances reconnect me to a primal context of purpose that goes beyond identity and ownership. The writing-when I've worked it this way-is the kind of information you take back from dreams. Or it's hypnotic writing rather than getting off on some sort of pleasure trip or intellectual trip.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Children, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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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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• 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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• Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

  Vinton Cerf

  Smart, Information Flow, Information Sharing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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