Information famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
-- Aaron Swartz -
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
-- Adam Gopnik -
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
-- Adam Savage -
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
-- Adrian Slywotzky -
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.
-- Alain Aspect -
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
-- Alan Cohen -
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
-- Albert Einstein -
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
-- Albert Einstein -
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
-- Albert Speer -
life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
-- Aldous Huxley -
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
-- Alex Berenson -
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
-- Alice Munro -
People's minds are overloaded with information.
-- Allen Leech -
My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
-- Alvin Langdon Coburn -
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".
-- Anatol Rapoport -
It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.
-- Anatol Rapoport -
The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
-- Anita Hill -
I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
-- Ann Druyan -
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
-- Ann Macbeth -
Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
-- Anna Brackett -
What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
-- Anna Politkovskaya -
I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
-- Anne Grant -
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
-- Anne Tyler -
Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
I'd learned something... Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me... and others. This was valuable information.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
-- Armin Hofmann -
You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?
-- Arthur Curley -
I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information,
-- Arthur Frommer -
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he bases it
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
-- Arthur Nielsen -
Ultimately there's a dirty secret about the Internet, which is nothing disappears. All these companies have all your information. They have your search history.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
-- Augustus Hare -
I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
-- Austan Goolsbee -
The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
-- Barack Obama -
I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.
-- Barack Obama -
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.
-- Ben Goldacre -
Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise.
-- Ben Marcus -
More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.
-- Ben Parr -
Information upon points of practical politics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.
-- Benjamin Graham -
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.
-- Bernard Haisch -
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
-- Betty Edwards -
As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our choice is always more information about us than them.
-- Bill Crawford -
It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?
-- Bill Ford -
Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy.
-- Bill Kraus -
When you're in a losing streak, your ability to properly assimilate and analyze information starts to become distorted because of the impairment of the confidence factor, which is a by-product of a losing streak. You have to work very hard to restore that confidence, and cutting back trading size helps achieve that goal.
-- Bill Lipschutz -
The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.
-- Bill Nye -
If you live in a democracy and don't have freedom of information, it's not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you don't have freedom of information online, it's not going to be offline, either.
-- Birgitta Jonsdottir -
An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information
-- Bo -
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.
-- Bo Gritz -
Most of us have all the information we need. What we need is more passion.
-- Bob Goff -
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.
-- Bob Goff -
It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.
-- Bob Ney -
Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.
-- Bob Woodward -
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
-- Bob Woodward -
Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
-- Bob Woodward -
I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.
-- Bob Woodward -
Startups are transforming our society. Over the past 100 years, we've gone from an industrial era, where a hierarchical structure dominated business and society, to a post information era where the network is rapidly disrupting the hierarchy and transforming the way we work and live,
-- Brad Feld -
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations
-- Brian De Palma -
Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet.
-- Brian Posehn -
Treat objections as requests for further information.
-- Brian Tracy -
The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work
-- Brian Tracy -
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
-- Bruce Coville -
When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
-- Bruce Jenner -
Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
-- Bruce Schneier -
Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.
-- Bruce Schneier -
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales’ concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
-- Busta Rhymes -
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
-- C. J. Cherryh -
Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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.
-- Carl Bernstein -
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.
-- Carl Gustav Hempel -
The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.
-- Carl Gustav Hempel -
The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.
-- Carly Fiorina -
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
-- Carol S. Dweck -
The mere imparting of information is not education.
-- Carter G. Woodson -
You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.
-- Cary Fukunaga -
I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information.
-- Cass Sunstein -
Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to.
-- Catherine Bell -
Theres so much more bad information than good information out there - everybodys got something to say and its usually wrong.
-- Cecily Strong
