Best 1560 quotes in «information quotes» category

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

People are starting to understand that the devices we carry with us reveal our location, who we're talking to, and all kinds of other information.

People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.

People, I am actually fairly smart. Why has this not occurred to anyone? The information is all out there, if you go looking for it, and the classified stuff just comes from analyzing the unclassified stuff and connecting the dots.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others.

... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

Phones are powerful at providing information.

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.

Power, today, comes from sharing information, not withholding it.

Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.

Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

Real choice is clear information and the right to walk away from a bad deal without leaving your wallet behind.

Real randomness requires an infinite amount of information.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

Real search is about providing valuable information when it's really needed to those who are actually looking for it.

Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.

Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into a trance, and she would just start typing information, and then she would come out of her trance and read it and go, "Wow," and that was just the way she wrote her books.

Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information storage and retrieval to the broader topic of the "'information pollution" and an examination of the forces which contribute to it.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.