Quotes About Information

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

We live in interesting times. Information overload can make it difficult to sift fact from fiction.

In a cashless society, the cash has been converted into numbers, into signals, into electronic currents. In short: Information replaces cash.

Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.

I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

U.S. companies should consider all the implications before signing agreements that give employees carte blanche to funnel company information to law-enforcement agencies.

We now know that we imprint information during the day. We sort of - that seed is planted there within the brain during the day. In other words, we learn information. But we also know that that vision that was planted in the brain still remains in the sound of silence, in this - in the dark of night.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

When federal agents and prosecutors quietly open a criminal investigation, we are not concealing anything; we are simply following the longstanding policy that we refrain from publicizing non-public information. In that context, silence is not concealment.

For me, the goal of a reading is fundamentally to help the person get closure or insight, and so sharing negative information without any positive silver lining or any potential resolution is pointless.

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization.

The news business is simple, but it's not easy to do well.

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.

The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: Almost no one knows about it.

A Escrita é, no entanto, muito mais do que 'a pintura da voz' como queria Voltaire. Tornou-se a suprema ferramenta do conhecimento humano (ciência), agente cultural da sociedade (literatura), meio de expressão democrática e informação popular (a imprensa) e uma forma de arte em si (caligrafia), para mencionar apenas algumas manifestações.

On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

But there is a long history within the far right of right-wing media positioning itself as the only true and honest media. To promote a world viewpoint distinct from that shared by the majority, it was critical to assert that everyone else simply didn't have the correct information on which to base decisions. That is a far easier task than accusing most of the country of being crazy.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

I'm a born liar myself and I know how it's done. You stick as close to the truth as you can. You pretend to volunteer a few bits of information, but the facts are all carefully selected for effect.