Information Quotes
3096 Information quotes by 2051 unique authors
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I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title.…
— Alexander Shulgin
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The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of…
— Curt Sachs
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
— Hans Blix
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I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff…
— Mark Twain
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Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they are programmed to…
— Abram Hoffer
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It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what's happening in your…
— David Eagleman
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What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology…
— John Maeda
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I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet…
— Austan Goolsbee
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In the classic old business cycle, there would be a diminution in sales; it would take a little while for this information to reach corporate…
— Alan Blinder
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My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language,…
— Edward Tufte
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A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
— Edward Tufte
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
— Edward Tufte
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Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they…
— Edward Tufte
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Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.…
— Andrei Sakharov
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Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.
— Lee Gutkind
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The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling,…
— Lee Gutkind
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Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.
— Sue Gardner
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Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related…
— Joseph Barrell
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Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
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Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major…
— Roger Wicker
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I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I…
— Martha Stewart
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I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.
— Eriq La Salle
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Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material.…
— Meredith Monk
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Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from…
— Louis Stokes
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Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special…
— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
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