Information Quotes - Page 22

• Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

  Walter Wriston

  World, Impossible, Accepting

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• The "paperless office" is a bad idea because paper is one of the most useful and valuable media ever invented. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store.

  David Gelernter

  Media, Ideas, Office

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• The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

  Steve Jobs

  Successful, People, Enough

  "Steve Jobs: The Apple Co-Founder's Most Memorable Quotes", www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 6, 2011.

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• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly.

  Dave Barry

  Ideas, Irs, Tolls

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• If marketers could uncover what is going on in our brains that makes us choose one brand over another-what information passes through our brain's filter and what information doesn't-well, that would be key to truly building brands of the future.

  Martin Lindstrom

  Keys, Brain, Filters

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• What I have done is packaged the time-honored information into a process that is doable and has inspired millions to act on it.

  Dave Ramsey

  Done, Inspired, Process

  Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Our history will be what we make of it. If we go on as we are, then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us. So, just once in a while let us exhault the importance of ideas and information.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Revenge, Ideas, Goes On

  "Fictional character: Edward R. Murrow". "Good Night, and Good Luck", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Clutter, Property

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• Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

  Ben Shapiro

  Media, Political, President

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• And in Improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as "Yes And." The term YES AND: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.

  Maya Rudolph

  Ideas, Add, Term

  "Maya Rudolph's Commencement Speech is Fantastic - 'Create Your Own Destiny'". Maya Rudolph's commencement address to the students of Tulane University in New Orleans, Los Angeles, onmogul.com. May 16, 2015.

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• Teaching our children is more than just imparting information. It's helping our children get the doctrine into their hearts in a way that it becomes part of their very being and is reflected in their attitudes and behavior throughout their lives.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Children, Attitude, Teaching

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• Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.

  Alvin Toffler

  Space, Substitutes, Labor

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• The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Growing Up, Children

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• An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.

  Stephen Covey

  Giving, Goal, Effort

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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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 Flow, Information Sharing

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• We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

  Angelina Jolie

  People, Suffering, Facts

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• The information age has been driven and dominated by technopreneurs. We now have to apply these technologies in saving lives, improving livelihoods and lifting millions of people out of squalor, misery and suffering. In other words, our focus must now move from the geeks to the meek.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Moving, Technology, People

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• Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

  Ernest Lehman

  Decision, Scene, Made

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• Good profiles mentioned characteristics that would probably be true for all of us, such as: "I want someone who will make me laugh." About Me sections with fewer than a hundred words tend to be clearly popular. Short profiles that express just enough information to pique someone's interest work best.

  Amy Webb

  Laughing, Pique, Want

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• As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched" from the first time they started to push the idea that Iraq and 9/11 were connected, though they didn't seem to be and there was no logical reason for thinking they were. It's like your neighbors the Smiths burned your house down, and then the next day you retaliated by burning down the Jones' house.

  Christopher Durang

  War, Thinking, Ideas

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• Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Communication, Design, Graphic

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• My creative is curiosity conversations...All conversations reveal some inner truth, and the information we get from a computer is different than something that becomes a biochemical event, like a real conversation.

  Brian Grazer

  Real, Creative, Curiosity

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• Content pays an ongoing information annuity that other forms of marketing simply do not.

  Jay Baer

  Marketing, Ongoing, Pay

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• Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Littles, Illegal, Used

  Henry A. Kissinger's speech to Turkish Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel in Ankara, Turkey, March 10, 1975.

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• Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.

  Leo Rosten

  Games, Play, Machines

  Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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