Information Quotes - Page 5

• Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.

  Carol Bellamy

  Vision, Spurs, World

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• Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

  Edward Tufte

  Simple, Confusion, Simplicity

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• Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life

  Natalie Goldberg

  Years, Twenties, Needs

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19,2016.

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• Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.

  Studs Terkel

  Knowledge, Thinking, Years

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• Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to.

  Laura Poitras

  Commitment, Government, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

  Arundhati Roy

  Data, Gathering, World

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• If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.

  Ricardo Semler

  Thinking, Organization, Tools

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• When I was a kid and my parents started talking about politics, I'd run to my room and put on the Rolling Stones as loud as I could. So when I see all these rock stars up there talking politics, it makes me sick... If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.

  Alice Cooper

  Running, Stars, Reading

  "Rock is on a roll with politics" by Warren Kinsella, September 12, 2004.

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• Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Ambition, Mind

  "Chapter 8: Lines: Untitled", www.theguardian.com. November 14, 1985.

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• As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, Islands, Sea

  Freeman Dyson (2015). “Dreams of Earth and Sky”, p.206, New York Review of Books

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• To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.

  Lene

  Light, Data, Perfect

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• The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Giving, Over You

  "Tim Berners-Lee: Facebook could fragment web" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.

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• Information is control.

  Joan Didion

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• Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Tunnels, Rich

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• [on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.

  William Feather

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.

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• Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Teacher, Children, Communication

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• The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

  Ted Cruz

  Freedom, Data Collection, Government

  "Posturing on the National Security Agency ruling" by Jennifer Rubin, www.washingtonpost.com. May 7, 2015.

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• All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Political, Patterns, Interdependence

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Leadership is about making decisions with the information you have, not the information people will have 12 years later, i kind of feel sorry for my friend Jeb Bush.

  Mike Huckabee

  Leadership, Sorry, Years

  "Huckabee defends Bush on Iraq -- but doesn't want his Apple Watch" By Maeve Reston, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2015.

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• If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Life, Christian, Biblical

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• So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Reality

  "Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, p. 234, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1969.

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• A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.

  Clive Thompson

  Powerful, Thinking, Talking

  "Interview: Clive Thompson's 'Smarter Than You Think'". Interview with Michael Agger, www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2013.

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• A new model is starting to take root and grow, one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more power to guide these choices. I call this emerging model The Mesh.

  Lisa Gansky

  Roots, Choices, Tools

  Lisa Gansky (2010). “The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing”, p.10, Penguin

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• Our ever-present mobile devices provide the immediate and convenient information necessary to make sharing things truly irresistible.

  Lisa Gansky

  Irresistible, Devices, Sharing Things

  "Welcome To The World Wide Mesh: Where Access Trumps Ownership" by Lisa Gansky, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 7, 2010.

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• We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Thinking, People, Needs

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