Information Quotes
3096 Information quotes by 2051 unique authors
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It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of…
— Dalai Lama
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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,…
— Diane Ackerman
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I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.
— Linda Ellerbee
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One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The…
— Edward de Bono
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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
— Gunter Grass
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Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring…
— John Howe
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The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning…
— Neil Postman
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
— David Mamet
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Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with the conditions of…
— Konrad Lorenz
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The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music…
— Lewis Thomas
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We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
— Vinton Cerf
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I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much…
— Esther Dyson
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Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one…
— Gregory Bateson
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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.
— Jimmy Wales
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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…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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In Canada you grow up - we're next to the United States. We're watching whatever you're watching. We're following your news. It's obvious that we…
— Rick Mercer
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We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we…
— Warren G. Bennis
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until…
— Kate Bush
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the…
— W. S. Gilbert
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The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.
— Donald Luskin
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If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information…
— Jonah Lehrer
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Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users -…
— Max Levchin
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to…
— Aaron Levie
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