Best 1560 quotes in «information quotes» category

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes.

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

Dear 2600: ...So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out? This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program.

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information about the operations of government.

Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth?

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

Don't be afraid to fail. The greatest failure of all is failure to act when action is needed. Use the information that you've acquired in the past through the experiences you've had and act with self-control - but act.

Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened.

Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.

Digitization has created opportunities for everybody to accumulate information in a way they were never able to, and analyze it with a speed that just wasn't there.

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained a something that will stay by us, and which will serve us again. But, if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought but borrowed it.

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information

Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.

Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

Even the best SEOs are not magicians. They can't simply place a site at the top of the engines when there are hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of others that offer basically the same thing, and provide basically the same information. If they could, you'd see a whole lot more millionaire SEOs.

Enhanced interrogation gleaned information that saved American lives and - I was informed - prevented incoming terrorist attacks on this country from being successful.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Every ounce of information we can extract from a killer about his mind and methods gives us more ammunition to track the next one.

Everybody is looking at their base business and saying, "What else is it? Sure, we do this, but while we're doing that, what else do we know about our customer, and what does that enable us to do?" That comes from the access to information and the ability to analyze it with a speed they never had. I think everybody is thinking that way.

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.