Information Quotes - Page 27

• Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

  Bill Gates

  Drug, Surveillance, Easy

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Ideas, Way

  "The day Bill Gates didn't call me a communist". Interview with Philip Elmer-DeWitt, David S. Jackson, fortune.com. June 28, 2008.

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• 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

  Bill Gates

  Media, Choices, Way

  Transcript–Bill Gates and Steve Jobs at D5, allthingsd.com. May 31, 2007.

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• There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.

  Bill Gates

  Phones, Numbers, Long

  "Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Government, Evil

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• Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.

  Eliot Coleman

  Doe, Compost, Spread

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• I accept the proposition that there has been a significant improvement in underlying productivity growth in the United States, that it is very closely tied to improvements in information and communications technology, and that it is likely to spread around the world. But I resist the new economy label because it seems to encourage a disrespect for the old rules that could seriously undermine our success in taking advantage of the new opportunities.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Opportunity

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• There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal developments: first, an increase in the economy's maximum sustainable growth rate and, second, the spread and increasing importance of information and communications technology.

  Laurence Meyer

  Communication, Technology, Two

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• The term congressional hearing is an oxymoron. No congressional hearing is ever called to gather information. Rather, it is an exercise designed strictly for posturing, by people who have already made up their minds, looking for ammunition to support their positions.

  Jack McDevitt

  Exercise, People, Support

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• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  Jack McDevitt

  Decision, Made, Insufficient

  "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.

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• I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Stress, Eye, Exercise

  Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.47, MIT Press

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• The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

  Squeak Carnwath

  World, Painting, Source

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

  Henry Rollins

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Giving, Ego

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• The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture.

  Henry Rollins

  Cameras, World, Internet

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• Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

  Henry Rollins

  Cds

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• For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  Independent, Illustration, Historical

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• The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Two, Years

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• I only ask for information.

  Charles Dickens

  Asks

  David Copperfield ch. 20 (1850)

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• There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.

  Dick Gregory

  Limits

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• What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Inability

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

  David Letterman

  Today, Ministers, Claims

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• Man is the most powerful creature on the planet. And we're arrogant. I mean, people own birds. It's like, there's a creature with the gift of flight. I want it. I'm going to put it in my kitchen and make it crap on old information.

  Demetri Martin

  Powerful, Mean, Men

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• Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance.

  Barack Obama

  Integrity, Government, Speaks Out

  "Obama Urged to Back New Whistleblower Act" by Ed O'Keefe, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 2009.

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• Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Beautiful, Reading, Skills

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