Information Quotes - Page 20

• I was certain that some people, whether by accident of birth or some pecularity of training, could tune in to another source of information and could know things about people we didn't think were possible to know.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, People, Training

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.291, Vintage

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• There is a difference between having access to information and having the savvy it takes to interpret it.

  Clifford Stoll

  Differences, Savvy, Access

  Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books

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• The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

  Nancy Pearl

  Superhero, Roles, World

  "An action figure for the books" by Devin Rose, articles.chicagotribune.com. August 3, 2003.

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• It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

  John Naisbitt

  Conclusion, Humans, Human Beings

  John Naisbitt (2009). “Mind Set!: Eleven Ways to Change the Way You See--and Create--the Future”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  People, Important, Loser

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• Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order....I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story of our world. Evolution works through indirection: each stage or epoch uses the information-processing methods of the previous epoch to create the next.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Believe, Our World, Order

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• Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

  Stan Lee

  Negative, Causes, Knows

  Stan Lee (2014). “Dunn’s Conundrum”, p.127, Brash Books, LLC

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• Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

  Alvin Toffler

  Suffering, Individual, Shock

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• Information Overload = "information pollution"

  Jakob Nielsen

  Pollution, Information Overload, Overload

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Cutting, Data, Starting Over

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• Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.

  C. West Churchman

  Matter, Collections, Users

  "Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions" by Daniel J. Power, (p. 23), 2004.

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• Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

  Tom Peters

  Information Sharing, Innovation, Hoarding

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• The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

  Walter Wriston

  Intellectual, Important, Revolution

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• Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.

  Bill Gates

  Want, Complicated, Share

  "Interview: Bill Gates on convergence". Interview with Marc Ferranti, www.macworld.com. January 8, 2007.

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• Sometimes it just amazes me how many people desperately want to protect my personal information.
  
  Ten thousand reflections
  hide the true gem.
  
  Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reflection, People, Peaceful

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• The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Book, People, Want

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• The information superhighway? That sounds like a place that's long and boring and kills 50,000 people a year.

  Dick Cavett

  Years, Long, People

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• Lying is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without giving any notification of the intent to do so. There are two major forms of lying: concealment, leaving out true information; and falsification, or presenting false information as if it were true.

  Paul Ekman

  Lying, Two, Giving

  Paul Ekman (2009). “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (Revised Edition)”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

  James Garner

  Challenges, Internet Users, Faces

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• A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it... It is as great presumption to send our passions upon God's errands, as to palliate them with God's name... We are too ready to retailiate, rather than forgive, or gain by love and information. And yet we could hurt no man that we believe loves us. Let us try then what Love will do: for if men did once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: and he that forgives first, wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Hurt, Believe, Passion

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• Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

  Jane Brody

  Baby, Communication, School

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• In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

  Joseph Nye

  Army, Winning, Age

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• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  Edmond Francois Valentin About

  Country, Men, Opinion

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• Too much information is rather deadening.

  Willa Cather

  Too Much Information, Too Much

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• A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ideas, Might, Odd

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