Information Quotes - Page 25

• Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Reflection, Self

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• Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

  Gerd Gigerenzer

  Errors, Risk, Cognition

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• The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.

  Bill Gates

  Citizens, Sophisticated, Should

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Anxiety, Feelings, Sides

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• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Black, Lost

  "Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Thinks You Might Be a Hologram". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best.

  Bernard Baruch

  Loss, Men, Trying

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• The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Desire, Dry

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.142, Booklassic

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• It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

  Bill Gates

  Giving, Edges

  "The New Road Ahead". www.microsoft.com. December 2005.

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• The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

  Bill Gates

  Communication, Culture, Leisure

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• This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that is not strictly governed by the laws of normal causality. So that there really is a prophetic dimension, a glimpse of the potential of the far centuries of the future through these compounds.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Law, Dimensions

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• It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

  Terence McKenna

  Reflection, Self, Hands

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• All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

  Terence McKenna

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

  Terence McKenna

  Imagination, Looks, Monkeys

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• Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum indicates that some kind of information processing membrane or boundary is being overcome by the pharmacology of this stuff. And things normally experienced as acoustically experienced becomes visibly beheld, and it's quite spectacular.

  Terence McKenna

  Song, Information Processing, Ayahuasca

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• There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Color, Needs, Shapes

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• Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

  Ma Huateng

  Safe, Innocent, Can Not

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• A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

  Ed Palubinskas

  Children, Doe, Balls

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• New information makes new and fresh ideas possible.

  Zig Ziglar

  Ideas, Fresh Ideas, New Information

  Zig Ziglar (2012). “Inspiration from the Top”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Environment, Program

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

  Daniel Burrus

  Information Is Power, Doe, Action

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• I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.

  Rosemary Mahoney

  Moving, Light, Color

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Air, Track, Wish

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

  Carl Sagan

  Strong, Self Worth, Sometimes

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.315, Ballantine Books

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• The brain processes meaning before detail. Providing the gist, the core concept, first was like giving a thirsty person a tall glass of water. And the brain likes hierarchy. Starting with general concepts naturally leads to explaining information in a hierarchical fashion. You have to do the general idea first. And then you will see that 40 percent improvement in understanding.

  John Medina

  Fashion, Glasses, Ideas

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• I always feel funny when I don't reveal things, especially to you [the press], who have supported us so much and are really the big reason we're here. But, we hold back information about the plot because we want to reward the fans for sticking with us, and that's so much fun. That's the funnest part of it.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Fun, Fans, Plot

  Source: collider.com

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