Information Quotes - Page 37

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

Good manners come, as we say, from good breeding or rather are good breeding; and breeding is acquired by habitual action, in response to habitual stimuli, not by conveying information.

Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.

An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which they inhabit. It would be much more desirable that facts should be placed in the foreground and theories in the distance, than that theories should be brought forward at the expense of facts. So that, in after times, when the speculations of the present day shall have passed away, from a greater accumulation of information, the facts may be readily seized and converted to account.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

The interchange of information is creating a new paradigm for the energy efficiency market

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them

Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren beteiligen sich an der Strukturierung der generierten Information, schaffen dabei unvorhersehbar Neues und erweisen sich dadurch als die zweite schöpferische Instanz neben dem Programmierer . . .

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

My values about learning changed. I realized that information changes situations.

The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.

I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see how information flows through those circuits and how it's transformed, we might have a much firmer grasp on why our brains make decisions the way that they do. If we get a handle on that, maybe we can overcome some of our limitations and at the very least we'll understand why we do what we do.

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not distort, delay, or sequester information