Information Quotes - Page 15

Anger is loaded with information and energy.

What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

Information about money is more important than money itself.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

Troops must be fed with ammunition and so on but also with information, with images, with visual intelligence. Without these elements troops cannot perform their duties properly. This is what is meant by the logistics of perception.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

But [in bureaucracies], too, decision making takes place in a world full of unceratinties. Any actual system of information processing, planning and control will never be optimal but merely practical, applying rote responses to recurrent problems and employing a variety of contingency tactics to deal with unforeseen events.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear. To find these images is to dare to see, to be aware of what there is and how it is. The photographer not only gets information, he gives information about life.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

It is the responsibility of those of us involved in today's biomedical research enterprise to translate the remarkable scientific innovations we are witnessing into health gains for the nation. At no other time has the need for a robust, bidirectional information flow between basic and translational scientists been so necessary.

Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.

Information is power only if you can take action with it. Then, and only then, does it represent knowledge and, consequently, power.

Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people seek to have control over a social situation by managing impressions, information flows, and context.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.