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Quotes About Information

Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.
~ Elkhonon Goldberg
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
~ Ellen Lupton
Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
~ Ellen Lupton
Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.
~ Ellen Pompeo
News is a form of entertainment .
~ Elliot Aronson
So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
~ Elsa Morante
Access to Internet is an access into a Great wealth of knowledge and information. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
The Internet is a Mine of information. In other words, it is a rich and huge source of information (wisdom, insights, inspirations and motivations). In fact, the Internet is a treasure that will last perpetually. Oh! yes, no one is going to shut down the Internet. Thus, you've got to utilize it (the Internet) as often as you can and as long as you live. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Entirely independent of our intellectual system, death, like every individual experience, can be confronted only by knowledge without information
~ Emil M. Cioran
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
~ Emil Ruder
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. A printed work which cannot be read becomes a product without purpose.
~ Emil Ruder
Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
~ Emily Blunt
I'm not asking for miracles, Seth, just a little info when you get a chance. That's all.
~ baldacci david v
If we give up on having library collections (digital or otherwise) and outsource access to and preservation of knowledge to corporations, we will have neither access nor preservation.
~ Barbara Fister
You are all pulling light, which is data and information, onto the planet, and as you do this you create new pathways for consciousness to explore without even saying a word.
~ Barbara Marciniak
He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
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~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The idea of a census was considered an intolerable intrusion. Providing information to "place-men and taxmasters," it was denounced by a Member of Parliament in 1753 as "totally subversive of the last remains of English liberty." If any officer should demand information about his household and family he would refuse it and if the officer persisted he would have him thrown into the horsepond.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
In the school building taken over by GQG, an unbridgeable gulf separated Operations, the Troisième Bureau, which occupied the class rooms, from Intelligence, the Deuxième Bureau, which was installed in the gymnasium with the apparatus pushed against the walls and the rings tied up to the ceiling. All day the Deuxième Bureau collected information, interrogated prisoners, deciphered documents, put together
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
It is very difficult for a recipient of secret information to believe its validity when it does not conform to his preconceived plans or ideas; he believes what he wants to believe and rejects what does not verify what he already knows, or thinks he knows.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Now, as a ghost, of course I am invisible, but when I wish for information I have the power of investing myself with the outward appearance of an intelligent stranger, and of assuming the language of the country in which I am sojourning. People who would naturally be shy of a Greek-speaking ghost, might have no objection to impart information to a quiet looking stranger dressed in black, and indulging in broken English.
~ baring gould sabine iii
In the twenty-first century, people threw off data like dead skin cells.
~ Barry Eisler
Producers of TV newsmagazines routinely let emotional accounts trump objective information.
~ Barry Glassner
None of us here in Washington knows all or even half of the answers If you love your country, don't depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government.
~ Barry Goldwater