Best 1560 quotes in «information quotes» category

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.

The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.

The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.

The more you eliminate the inefficient use of information, the better it is for productivity.

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet - even when they are using a wireless device - is part of the framework.

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious expressions suitable for discussion.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

The organization of information actually creates new information.

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

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.

The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the authority of others.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.

The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.

The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as "All bachelors are unmarried," but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.