Information Quotes - Page 29

• Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.

  Tor Nørretranders

  Beautiful, Sexy, Confused

  Tor Nørretranders (1999). “The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size”, Penguin Books

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• How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow?

  Dana Gould

  Too Much Information, Responding, Behinds

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• I noticed whenever you call information, 411, there's always a computer voice, and they go, 'What number would you like? City and state, please.' 'Yeah, I'd like the number of Macy's in Century City, California.' 'Did you say 'pretzel nuggets'?

  Andy Kindler

  Cities, Voice, California

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• The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.

  Hans Rosling

  Ideas, Numbers, Understanding

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• Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

  Andrew Nikiforuk

  Jobs, School, Ideas

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• Originally, one of the reasons I was drawn to photography, as opposed to painting or sculpture or installation, is that of all the arts it is the most democratic, in so far as it's instantly readable and accessible to our culture. Photography is how we move information back and forth.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Photography, Art, Moving

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• I start by thinking I'm going to make use of all possibilities without troubling any longer about problems when something starts to be art. I don't make the ETERNAL work of ART, I only give visual information.

  Jan Dibbets

  Art, Thinking, Giving

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• In my work, the information is the least important part. It's there, and the work wouldn't mean the same thing without it, but it isn't structured around the information. The most interesting part to me is the visual play... looking at this little universe of representation that I can make out of the world.

  Judy Fiskin

  Mean, Play, Interesting

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• The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Heart, Doubt, Filters

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• A [spatial, temporal] work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  Dan Graham

  Art, Economic Value, Records

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• We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

  Lev Manovich

  Email, Sms, Archives

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• What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

  Sarah Moon

  Given, Aim, Minimum

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• Illusions as bad as mine make people aware of the fallacies of visual information and the pleasure to be derived from such fallacies.

  Vik Muniz

  People, Illusion, Pleasure

  Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”

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• We have to tell people how images are made. And, the first step is to abandon the idea we're looking at photographs. We're looking at entry points to information and to the world in which the image was made.

  Fred Ritchin

  Ideas, People, World

  "Fred Ritchin Redefines Digital Photography". Interview with Pete Brook, www.wired.com. September 2, 2011.

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• The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously direct themselves to bring forward hidden information that is not normally displayed on the surface.

  Arthur Tress

  Documentaries, Window, Stage

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• The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.

  Barton Gellman

  Nsa, People, Secret

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• Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Energy, World, Body

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jan 16, 2012

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• Scientists who study brain-wave activity found that the longer one watches television, the more likely the brain will slip into "alpha" level: a slow, steady brain-wave pattern in which the mind is in its most receptive mode. It is noncoggnitive mode; i.e., information can be placed into the mind directly, without viewer participation.

  Jerry Mander

  Brain, Mind, Watches

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• Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

  Isabel Allende

  Ideas, Blogging, Phrases

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• All knowledge is the outgrowth of obedience; everything else is just information.

  Watchman Nee

  Obedience

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• As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.

  Manning Marable

  Meaningful, Educational, Men

  Manning Marable (1997). “Black liberation in conservative America”, South End Pr

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• The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

  Michael Polanyi

  Book, Ideas, Ink And Paper

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• A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

  Narendra Modi

  Real, Government, Giving

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• There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should play it a little closer to the chest as far as what information they release to the world. If I'm angry about something, I'm not going to take to my Twitter.

  Patrick Stump

  Jobs, Play, People

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• There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

  Noam Chomsky

  Criticism, Body, Significant

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.67, Pantheon

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