Information Quotes - Page 11

In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature.

Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

Optimism is lack of information.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

The cure to information overload is more information.

An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed.

Information is not knowledge. Let's not confuse the two.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

Information is light. Information in itself, about anything, is light.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

Memorizing information is valuable but only if you're able to make some sense of the information and put it into a useful context. Isn't it much better if we can attach something tangible to that information?

I have a bunch of information in my head that I'm not afraid to put in song or onto a canvas. Into any conversation.

When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?

A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation.

Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions for use of the system should be visible or easily retrievable whenever appropriate.

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.