Information Quotes - Page 51

I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

Power is the band that we perceive things on. In radio we have stations. Frequencies vibrate at certain rates and within those frequencies we transmit information and receive information.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires.

Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure.

Anything that causes you to doubt, to raise either objections or just concerns about it - and they always put the information right at the bottom of the screen so you can't really read it - every time you see a company do that, the ad becomes less effective. The communication becomes less effective.

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake.

As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

The Internet challenges traditional ways of distributing and processing information and so encourages new standards and behavior.

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of research? Because we know already so much that there is no one person who can contain all that information.

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

To effectively leverage the social graph, every company needs to understand that they need to make their information easily transferable.

The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

On first blush this looks to be about money, but it is about power. Is power going to go to the information monopolies, or will it go to developers and users?.

Dear 2600: ...So, in the interest of information gathering and because I am a subscriber, are you going to be checking me out? This would be unnecessary since we checked you out before you subscribed. That's why we made sure you heard about us and followed the plan by subscribing. Writing this letter, however, was not part of the plan and we will be taking corrective action.

What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.