Quotes About Information

The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

Information is power, and modern information technology is spreading information more widely than ever before in history.

pool our information," Dimmick said, "to work out a joint plan of campaign." "Thank you, I don't think I'd care to do that," Mason told him. "I want to be free to represent my client in whatever way seems best as the situation develops." "Can't you see, Mr. Dimmick," Rodney Cuff said impatiently, "he's going to pin the whole thing on Driscoll if he has a

The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

I mean, did you ever hear of Wikipedia? It's free, douchebag.

G.I. Joe—I knew them all. Because knowing is half the battle.

The dramatic news is confirmed: Che has died in combat. His belongings are described in vivid detail and other information is given that only those close to the scene could have known. The

Quizás al final de este siglo se distingan dos clases de hombres, unos formados por la televisión y otros por la lectura

a paradigm where information rather than matter is the basic reality

The most fundamental element of reality is the quantum vacuum, the energy- and in-formation-filled plenum that underlies, generates, and interacts with our universe, and with whatever universes may exist in the Metaverse.

The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him, the more he is obliged to volunteer information about himself, even though the cost to him of candor may have increased proportionally.

The Court held that police may obtain cellular location information—information that can be used to determine where a person was at a particular time—only if they have a warrant based on probable cause or if emergency circumstances justify allowing the search without a warrant.

the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the obtaining of information revealed to a third party . . ., even if the information is revealed on the assumption that it will be used only for a limited purpose and the confidence placed in the third party will not be betrayed."55

Miller says that when police obtain information that a person has shared with a third party, it is not a search. Therefore, the requirements for probable cause and a warrant—the key protections of privacy under the Fourth Amendment—do not apply or need to be met.

Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court did not overrule or narrow the third-party doctrine, but it refused to extend it to cover stored cellular location information.

The life of faith is less about gathering information than it is about expanding imagination. The movement Jesus started was a movement of dreamers and visionaries, not a movement of academics and theologians.

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

All is being received by choice. We see the power of influence from others as a tremendous hindrance to your own individual creative thinking. Every being who receives anything, does so by his own choosing. The information that is offered is not being thrust upon you. You are making the decision whether to receive it -- or whether not to receive it.

We tend to think knowledge is information, facts, bits of data, "content," true statements—true statements justified by other true statements. And while this isn't exactly false, we tend to have a vision of knowledge as being only this. We conclude that gaining knowledge is collecting information—and we're done—educated, trained, expert, certain.

In presuming that knowledge is a mental activity we tend to think of our body strictly as a mindless container—an object. Of course, we understand that our senses take in information and our brains process it. But we see this as mechanical. We actually think computers might duplicate how humans know.

The McKinsey problem-solving process begins with research. Before a team can construct an initial hypothesis, before it can disaggregate a problem into its components and uncover the key drivers, it has to have information.

one of my jobs at the start of an engagement was to search PDNet for anything that would shed light on our current project: comparable industries, comparable problems. Inevitably, any PDNet query produced a mountain of documents that I then had to wade through to find the few that might be relevant. Still, this long day's (and, as often as not, night's) work usually yielded something to point us in the right direction.

At its heart, infotainment represents the indiscriminate combination of two mental longings, conflated by our ignorance. These two impulses are: 1. the impulse to be informed—to know what is real and what isn't, in ourselves and the world around us (the "info"); and 2. the desire to be entertained and comforted, to be reassured about the correctness of our personal and collective tendencies (the "tainment").