Information Quotes - Page 33

• Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Reflection, Self

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• The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

  Bill Gates

  Citizens, Sophisticated, Should

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Anxiety, Feelings, Sides

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• The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Desire, Dry

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.142, Booklassic

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• It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

  Bill Gates

  Giving, Edges

  "The New Road Ahead". www.microsoft.com. December 2005.

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• This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Law, Dimensions

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• Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Errors, Gaps

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• There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Color, Needs, Shapes

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• Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

  Ma Huateng

  Safe, Innocent, Can Not

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• New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

  Zig Ziglar

  Ideas, Fresh Ideas, New Information

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Environment, Program

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

  Carl Sagan

  Strong, Self Worth, Sometimes

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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• I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Fans, Plot

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it actually makes more sense for a new audience than the old show did because we're focusing on one character at a time. It's all conjecture why somebody didn't watch, but one of the theories was that there was just so much information, even in the trailers and promos, of all these different people.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Connections, May

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Want, Congress

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There are countless times where you're trying to channel somebody who's not there, but that's what you have to do. But Audrey Geisel, who has executive produced this film and Horton, and who works remarkably close with me, is a great source of information. (The Simpsons creator) Matt Groening once told me that one of the most important roles that he fulfills on The Simpsons is being the keeper of the integrity of the original vision.

  Christopher Meledandri

  Integrity, Vision, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• There's tons of information on the Internet, so if you type in cancer, they'll give you 15, 000 different options to get involved with cancer. It's very easy to get involved if you want to get involved, especially to volunteer your time.

  Chelsea Handler

  Cancer, Volunteer, Giving

  "Chelsea Handler: Gay rights is no joke". Interview with Jessica Abramson, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2011.

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• The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

  Matt Blaze

  Insecure, Numbers, Records

  Source: www.politico.com

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• One key to success is knowing the difference between knowledge and wisdom. One is information from the past while the other is the key to the future.

  Bill Crawford

  Past, Keys, Differences

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• My values about learning changed. I realized that information changes situations.

  Eric Thomas

  Changed, Situation, I Realized

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• I make it a rule not to clutter my mind with simple information that I can find in a book in five minutes.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Simple, Mind

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• ...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

  Michael Martin Hammer

  Technology, Starting Over, Use

  "Reengineering work: don't automate, obliterate". Harvard Business Review, Volume 68, No.4, pp. 104, 1990.

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• By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.

  Paul Rice

  Mean, Responsibility, Accomplishment

  Paul Rice (1989). “Timesource”, Ten Speed Pr

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