Information Quotes - Page 37

• I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

  Eric Topol

  Bored, Enough, I Can

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• Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Home, Numbers

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.18, Hachette UK

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• We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.

  Dwight Schultz

  Government, Hoaxes, Suppressing

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• If I know what to spec, and I can measure it, and there are no unpredictable interdependencies between what you do and what I must do in response, then an economist would say that is sufficient information for a market to emerge between you and me.

  Clayton Christensen

  Between You And Me, Unpredictable, Economist

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Audio, Hearing, Fields

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Real, Thinking, Objectivity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "Star Trek" expands almost instinctively - the more information you seek from it, the more it gives. It also has the benefit of taking place in our future, our mutual destinies as occupants of a peaceful, non-polluted Earth.

  Hank Stuever

  Stars, Destiny, Giving

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Football, Jobs, Fall

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• Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.

  Paul Auster

  Pieces, Literature, Dry

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the importance of politics, the future is certainly open.

  Henry Giroux

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Long

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Most of the AI goes into figuring which are the important pages you want. And to some extent what your query means, and what you're likely to be after based on your previous behavior and other information it collects about you.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Mean, Important, Want

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 9, 2015.

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• Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

  Bill Gates

  Online, Software, Findings

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• If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.

  William Davis

  Different, Looks, Paper

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• I don't know if I'm at the relationship advice stage yet. I do have a lot of information to share, and a book is definitely in the works, but I don't know whether it'll be geared towards relationships.

  Kevin Hart

  Book, Advice, Share

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• Not to say that the process assumes anything of "greater" or "lesser" importance, though: it's just more graphic information. Take the surrealists, for example, or a work by Cage. For me, there's a great value in doing this with literature. There's a certain form of dependence; process and product inform each other, depend on each other. I consider myself a writer who doesn't write with a style, almost. I begin with tension, with a vibe, a character.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Character, Writing, Style

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, Different, Asking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A Twitter update is simple and fast and gets the information and news, and it spreads it very quickly, and it can contain links so you can then link to this whole context of information.

  Biz Stone

  Simple, News, Links

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information. Maybe, it is as simple as once in a while glancing down at the device that's invaluable to you or many reasons, catching up, or it lets you know when you should know something. But as these things get better and we get more connected in it, it will get more sophisticated.

  Biz Stone

  Simple, Over You, Get Better

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.

  D. A. Carson

  Expression, Maps, Pages

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When I talk to my neighbor, or to someone at church who doesn't accept that the planet is changing, I know that they don't know any better. They've been told this information by somebody they trust and it's not their fault. They've just never heard otherwise.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Church, Faults, Neighbor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Unlike previous wars, our enemy now is a stateless network of religious extremists. They do not obey the laws of war, they hide among peaceful populations and launch surprise attacks on civilians. They have no armed forces per se, no territory or citizens to defend and no fear of dying during their attacks. Information is our primary weapon against this enemy, and intelligence gathered from captured operatives is perhaps the most effective means of preventing future attacks.

  John Yoo

  Religious, War, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not good at going on the internet and trolling around and finding information.

  Mary Elizabeth Ellis

  Internet, Findings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Different, Reason, Uncertain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• An information operations team was sent to Afghanistan to conduct various psychological operations on the Afghans and Taliban. The team was then asked not to focus on the Taliban but on manipulating senators into giving more funds and troops [to the war].

  Michael Hastings

  War, Team, Giving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The way the Pentagon and its defenders have pushed back against this story is to say: "They weren't doing psychological operations, they were doing information operations and public affairs. They were just helping us spin senators like we normally do."

  Michael Hastings

  Stories, Way, Helping

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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