Quotes About Information

Men and women walked casually about as they did on the main floor, every now and then stopping one another, exchanging pleasantries or scraps of relevantly irrelevant information. Gossip.

action in an absence of information is wasted effort

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

As Obama would tell me one occasion, "I can't defend it unless I understand it." I rarely saw him rush to a decision when circumstances allowed him time to gather information, analyze, and reflect...When the occasion demand it, though, Obama could make a big decision - a life-and-death decision - very fast." Page 299

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information

La ignorancia es una estupidez temporal debida a una falta de información, mientras que la estupidez es decidida, independientemente de cuánta información se transmita.

the person who has the most timely information owns the wealth.

Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing.

La preocupación priva a la mente de gran parte de su poder y, antes o después, acaba dañando el alma. »Para vivir una vida de máxima plenitud hay que montar guardia y dejar que entre en tu jardín sólo la información más selecta.

The human mind is the world's largest filtering device. When used properly it filters out what you perceive as unimportant and gives you only the information you are looking for at that time. At

You cats won't believe the power and value of the information that's coming.

Every answer to every problem you have ever faced is in print.

soy una adicta a la tecnología. No puedo parar de consultarlo todo. Es la primera cosa que hago por la mañana y la última por la noche. Está consumiendo mi concentración.

It turns out that a reciprocity strategy can work better; give visitors the info they want and then ask for their information. Italian researchers found that twice as many visitors gave up their contact data if they were able to access the information first. It

Anyone who has the price of a newspaper should have a fair chance of understanding most of what's written in it

Negotiation, Information Technology, and the Problem of the Faceless Other," in Leigh L. Thompson, editor, Negotiation Theory and Research (Psychology Press, 2006).

wanting it for its beauty is not wanting to inspect it: it is wanting to contemplate it—and that is something more than a search for information or an expression of appetite. Here is a want without a goal: a desire that cannot be fulfilled since there is nothing that would count as its fulfilment.

As for the rest of him, his function is rather like that of an anti-computer: you feed him all kinds of carefully garnered facts, figures, and statistics and he translates them into garbage.

There were obviously missing pieces to the puzzle, but I felt as if they were minor, as if the smallest bit of new information and the slightest jiggling of the pattern would suddenly cause everything to fall into place, with the emerging picture to be something I should have seen all along.

T]he more technology develops the diffusion of information (and notably of images), the more it provides the means of masking the constructed meaning under the appearance of the given meaning.

he listened closely to what people said and filed away as much information as he could, repeating valuable information to himself until it was memorized.

Yet he quietly worked to undermine the dissolution, suggesting that officials of the Standard Oil companies meet at 26 Broadway at ten-thirty each morning to maintain amicable relations and swap information.

While the nature of this radiation will give no information whatsoever on what fell into the black hole

Xenu and a few evil conspirators—mainly psychiatrists—fed false information to the population to draw them into centers where Xenu's troops could destroy them. "One of the mechanisms they used was to tell them to come in for an income-tax investigation