Information Quotes - Page 53

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn't involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them 'innate'. Here we see again the oddity of treating 'not learned' as sufficient for innate.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well.

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

The business model of the conservative media is built on two elements: provoking the audience into a fever of indignation (to keep them watching) and fomenting mistrust of all other information sources (so that they never change the channel).

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

Just give the brain the information and it will figure it out.

My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

Real search is about providing valuable information when it's really needed to those who are actually looking for it.

Advertising will get more and more targeted until it disappears, because perfectly targeted advertising is just information.

Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?

He had given me so much information, I wanted some time to absorb it all, but I didn't want to leave him. Not like this. Not ever, as long as I lived. Or until I had to get back on the case. Whichever came first.

We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action.

The auditioning process is one in which the actor gets very little information about almost every element of it.

It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.