Quotes About Information

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.

What happens,' writes Shirer, 'to the inner fabric of a people when they are fed lies like this daily?' It is a question as important today as it was when posed on 9 May 1940

A gente precisa estar informada sobre tudo, papai. Para isso é que existem os livros. Sem esses rebeldes, o mundo não progredia. Eles vão na frente, abrindo o caminho.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

There is a talent in finding the right information at the right time, a happiness in pleasing someone else. Love is the best teacher in this journey. It is simple: you take the initiative and throw the dice. /The Invitation

I dont give advice. I cant tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.

Desde un punto de vista heurístico, las intuiciones son información no procesada de forma racional que pueden producir un resultado cognitivo que se ha saltado procesos lógicos de pensamiento.

Él había andado por la vida así, a punta de frases breves y enigmáticas, dejando caer boronas de información donde los demás pudieran ver una sugerencia y llenar el resto del cuadro con su propia imaginación, con sus propias memorias.

un punto de vista heurístico, las intuiciones son información no procesada de forma racional que pueden producir un resultado cognitivo que se ha saltado procesos lógicos de pensamiento.

Toda web deja un rastro en nuestro ordenador llamado cookies, pequeñas piezas de información que la web usa para identificarnos, y a las que nosotros le damos permiso para leer. Con esas galletitas, una web como Amazon o Infinity Shopping sabe qué páginas visitamos. Sabe si nos gustan las novelas de misterio o los fideos chinos. Y cuando navegamos por ella, nos ofrece tentadoras fotos de fideos chinos y de novelas de misterio recién salidas de la imprenta.

Y ya sabe el principio básico de cualquier programador. Lo que el usuario no sabe, al usuario no le hace daño.

El opio de los pobres hace rato que ya no es la religión. Lo es la cultura de los medios de comunicación

El lenguaje no es una propiedad del individuo, sino de la colectividad. No es que un individuo se comunique bien; sería mejor decir que un grupo está bien comunicado. La capacidad para compartir y transmitir información entre individuos y entre generaciones por la vía del lenguaje confiere una gran ventaja adaptativa al grupo en su conjunto, no al individuo aislado.

The two fundamental questions of causality are: (1) What empirical evidence is required for legitimate inference of cause–effect relationships? (2) Given that we are willing to accept causal information about a phenomenon, what inferences can we draw from such information, and how?

The problem with monotonic logic lies not in the hardness of its truth values, but rather in its inability to process context-dependent information.

Extremely large Volumes of data Extremely high Velocity of data Extremely wide Variety of data

Conversation consists of developing and playing with ideas by juxtaposing the accumulated conclusions of two or more people and then improvising on them. It requires supplying such ingredients as information, experience, anecdotes, and opinions, but then being prepared to have them challenged and to contribute to a new mixture. Conversation

Pearsall also describes an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered child. After the transplant, the girl started having nightmares about the man who had killed her donor. Her mother then took her to a therapist. Details she reported in therapy sessions were so precise—time, weapon, the murderer's clothes, crime scene—that they notified the police. Astonishingly, the girl's information led police to the murderer.

As you're reading this text, you may notice these two levels. Part of your mind is focusing on the information in the text; that is, you are trying to understand and integrate factual information. At another level, however, you may be having some quick, evaluative thoughts about the situation. These cognitions are called automatic thoughts

data collection is essential for protecting individuals from false allegations. The more detailed information about a person, the more fairly we can judge.

It isn't gossip," Hyacinth retorted. "It's the honest dissemination of information.

It isn't gossip, it's the honest dissemination of information.

On the Internet, information from Indiana and India is equally cheap and easy to access.

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.