Quotes and Sayings About Information
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Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.
-- A. Scott Berg -
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
-- Aaron SwartzSource : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press
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Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
-- Adam Gopnik -
There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
-- Adam Savage -
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
-- Adrian SlywotzkySource : "The Upside". "HBR IdeaCast" with Paul Michelman, hbr.org.
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The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
-- Alain Aspect -
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Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
-- Alan Cohen -
Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
-- Albert Einstein -
Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.
-- Albert Einstein -
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
-- Albert Speer -
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life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything
-- Aldous Huxley -
An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
-- Alex Berenson -
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
-- Alfred Hitchcock -
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
-- Alfred North WhiteheadSource : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
-- Alice Munro -
People's minds are overloaded with information.
-- Allen Leech -
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My aim in photography is always to convey a mood and not to impart local information. This is not an easy matter, for the camera if left to its own devices will simply impart local information to the exclusiveness of everything else.
-- Alvin Langdon Coburn -
The "flow of information" through human communication channels is enormous. So far no theory exists, to our knowledge, which attributes any sort of unambiguous measure to this "flow".
-- Anatol RapoportSource : "Modern Systems Research for the Behavioral Scientist" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 139), 1969.
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It is misleading in a crucial way to view information as something that can be poured into an empty vessel, like a fluid or even energy.
-- Anatol RapoportSource : "Holistic Darwinism" by Peter Corning, (p. 364), 2010.
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The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
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I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant
-- Anita Hill -
I found that it was easiest to convey the information in the context of the life of the scientist or in the context of our own personal experience, and there was no idea that was too complicated that couldn't be explained clearly and directly.
-- Ann Druyan -
Video just accesses international information so much more readily.
-- Ann Macbeth -
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Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
-- Anna BrackettSource : "The Technique of Rest". Book by Anna C. Brackett, Ch. 2, 1892.
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What matter is the information, not what you think about it.
-- Anna Politkovskaya