Information Quotes - Page 49

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Narrative tension is primarily about withholding information.

How do we prevent attacks? How do we protect our people?I think we've got to have an intelligence surge, where we are looking for every scrap of information.

It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.

What you are talking about is retroactive classification. And the reason that happens is when somebody asks or when you are asked to make information public, I asked all my emails to be made public. Then all the rest of the government gets to weigh in.

Obviously, as secretary of state, I had some of the most important secrets that we possess, such as going after bin Laden. So I am very committed to taking classified information seriously.

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and intrusive the American government has become - how willing it is to engage in vast crimes against the American public.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

The solution of the Monty Hall problem hinges on the concept of information, and more specifically, on the relationship between added information and probability.

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed.

Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, invented a way to measure 'the amount of information' in a message without defining the word 'information' itself, nor even addressing the question of the meaning of the message.

We don't know what energy is, any more than we know what information is, but as a now robust scientific concept we can describe it in precise mathematical terms, and as a commodity we can measure, market, regulate and tax it.