Quotes About Information

Although results vary in their effectiveness, particularly when a would-be bomber is exclusively reliant on the Internet and not an apprenticeship with an experienced bomb maker, such information is so easily accessible today that we might usefully ask why there is not even more terrorism as a result.

We no longer watch television news but, in the language of the broadcasting bosses, 'consume' it.

The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago.

addition to priming our state of mind, exercise influences learning directly, at the cellular level, improving the brain's potential to log in and process new information.

One of Bob's aphorisms," says Stickgold, "is that for every two hours your brain spends taking in information during the day, it needs an hour of sleep to figure out what it means. If you don't get that hour, you don't figure it out. The difference between smart and wise is two hours more sleep a night." This idea takes on a new dimension

In a riot and a sculpture, [such] tactical acts of re-appropriation disrupt the circulation of bodies and information within a given terrain, if only for a moment.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

Scandinavia through the Viking Age was for all intents and purposes an oral society, one in which nearly all information was encoded in mortal memory—rather than in books that could be stored—and passed from one memory to another through speech acts.

But to ask a computing device to stop gathering information and to stop sharing it with other devices is like wishing away all the magic in your magic wand.

Of all the weapons vital for a speedy victory, the most vital is information.

And when you trust your television, What you get is what you got, Cause when they own the information, oh, They can bend it all they want.

On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

The most common communication mistakes? Relating too much information, with not enough time devoted to connecting the dots.

It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds, thousands of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened. In high school I had been full of opinions, but high school had been like prison, with constant opposition and obstacles. Once the obstacles were gone, meaning seemed to vanish, too.

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He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

As they broke apart, the information safely handed over, the memory of the kiss left Dust full of an aching emptiness, everywhere his airborne nanoparticls drifted and spread.

It paid to understand the politics, and for all their prickles the blood had long learned the value of shared information.

There was so much information, and I had so little sense of what any of it meant.

Comest thou to a snake for sympathy, Sir Poet?" "I come to a snake for information. What may be equally foolish.

The problem with information on the Internet is that it is hard to verify its authenticity." —Abraham Lincoln.     ââ'¬Â¢

But you can't very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.

Freedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher's 'freedom to print'; it is, rather, the citizen's 'right to know.