Information Quotes - Page 35

Self-percepts foster actions that generate information, as well as serve as a filtering mechanism for self-referent information in the self-maintaining process

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

All great leaders constantly seek new information and new ways of thinking.

Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible ... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Consciousness is not about information but about its opposite: order.

Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

There is always more information than attention

The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness.

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

There are lots of companies that are really trying to collect as much information as they can about every single person on the planet because they think its going to be valuable and it probably already is valuable.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

We live in a profoundly nonintellectual culture, made all the worse by a passive hedonism abetted by the spread of wealth and its dissipation into countless electronic devices that impart the latest in entertainment and supposed information - all in short (and loud) doses of "easy listening".

Whether or not you're aware of it or not, you're taking the information you get from watching TV and putting it in your brain.

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

Journalism has changed tremendously because of the democratization of information. Anybody can put something up on the Internet. It's harder and harder to find what the truth is.

One of the consistent themes you'll find throughout the Bible is that God will always provide the necessary information about Jesus Christ to someone who sincerely desires to receive that revelation.

Computers are no more able to create information than iPods are capable of creating music.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.