Information Quotes - Page 10

• We visual communicators have so much good to share: rather than sharing our chemical and style addictions, we could be using our professional skills to help communicate health information, conflict resolution, democracy, technology.

  David Berman

  Technology, Skills, Addiction

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• If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.

  John Adams

  Spring, Pride, President

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.108

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• Information is the religion of the modern world.

  David Lodge

  World, Modern, Modern World

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.390, Penguin

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• You share things with people and I think information, and art, and ideas should be shared.

  Michael Moore

  Art, Creativity, Thinking

  "Moore: Pirate my film, no problem". Sunday Herald (Glascow, Scotland), July 4, 2004.

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• I believe that the data will set you free. At the end of the day, it’s about how do you turn those pieces of information into insights that will improve business.

  Steven Rice

  Believe, Data, The End Of The Day

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• If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

  Felix Adler

  Order, Law, Effort

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• By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

  Jon Porter

  School, Perspective, Records

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• There is a central difference between the old and new economies: the old industrial economy was driven by economies of scale; the new information economy is driven by the economics of networks.

  Carl Shapiro

  Differences, Collaboration, Old And New

  Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian (2013). “Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy”, p.173, Harvard Business Press

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• Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

  Timothy Murphy

  Safety, Excellence, Records

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• I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

  Timothy Murphy

  Agency, Order, President

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• Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

  Gene Fowler

  Long, Psychiatry, Application

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• When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

  John Sexton

  Jobs, Artist, Class

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• 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.

  Bob Graham

  War, Aggravation, Listening

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• The situation has provided a cue; this cue has given the expert access to information stored in memory, and the information provides the answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

  Herbert Simon

  Memories, Intuition, Experts

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• A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

  Herbert Simon

  Attention, Poverty, Wealth

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

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• When you trust your television
  What you get is what you got
  Cause when they own the information, oh
  They can bend it all they want.

  John Mayer

  Television, Want, Causes

  Song: Waiting on the World to Change, 2006

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• God’s Word does not merely impart information; it actually creates life. It’s not only descriptive; it’s effective too, God speaking is God acting.

  Michael Horton

  Acting, Doe, God Speaking

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• ...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.

  Ian Stewart

  Beauty, Art, Block

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• The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

  Scott Adams

  Want, Way, Best Way

  Scott Adams (2011). “14 Years of Loyal Service in a Fabric-Covered Box: A Dilbert Book”, p.123, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.

  Mike Rogers

  Community, Way, Briefing

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• It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.

  David Bohm

  Creativity, Ideas, Fundamentals

  David Bohm, F. David Peat (2000). “Science, Order, and Creativity”, p.240, Psychology Press

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• I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

  Scott Adams

  Thinking, People, Age

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• So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

  James Thurber

  Knowledge, Written

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & lances”

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• The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

  Richard Powers

  Curiosity, Mainstream, Should

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• I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

  Richard Curtis

  Book, People, Want

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