Information Flow Quotes

• The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Barack Obama Criticises Internet Censorship at Meeting in China". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2009.

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• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

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• There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.

  Rumi

  Voice, Silence, Way

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Cutting, Decision, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

  danah boyd

  People, Privacy, Social

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.76, Yale University Press

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• Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.

  Vinton Cerf

  Smart, Information Sharing, Ideas

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• To be a super-trader, you'll need an edge to overcome the laws of probability and the uncertainty of the marketplace. That edge comes from information flow, the ability to correct your habits in terms of the market's characteristics, and being able to take risks, cut losses, expand your information network, ferret out ideas, and take recommendations.

  Ari Kiev

  Cutting, Loss, Law

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• I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.

  Edward Boyden

  Cells, Decision, Brain

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

  Barack Obama

  Internet, Authority, Censored

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.

  Harold Evans

  Sunday, Editors, People

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Money, Media, Ideas

  "Intrinsic Motivation Models Lead To Business Success" by Marty Zwilling, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Access to the outside world is preventing more censorship. I do think information flow is happening in China. .. There's no doubt in my mind that it's been a huge plus.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Mind, Doubt

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