Quotes About Information

everything that exists is one living being, and that light is the messenger of life, because it is alive and contains all information.

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I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.

I love the healthy exchange of information.

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

I'm active on Twitter, and I love my iPad and my Kindle.

No matter how hard I try, there's a cynical corner of my mind where everything is an act. People are game pieces. Information is currency.

She's doped up watching MTV and I want to watch the goddamn MacNeil/Lehrer report.

I hardly ever read the paper or watch television. I usually don't know what's going on in the world. You'd be amazed how little difference it makes to your life on most days.

Stephen Hawking showed mathematically that the entropy of a black hole equals the number of Planck-sized cells that it takes to cover its event horizon. It's as if each cell carries one bit, one basic unit of information.

The skyscraper is but a physical realization of the information contained in the architect's design.

Black holes don't just tell us about how black holes store information. Black holes inform us about information storage in any context.

Tononi's proposal elevates these observations to a defining characterization: conscious awareness is information that is highly integrated and highly differentiated.

Notice that the value of the entropy and the amount of hidden information are equal. That's no accident. The number of possible heads-tails rearrangements is the number of possible answers to the 1,000 questions-(yes,yes,no,no,yes,...) or (yes,no,yes,yes,no,...) or (no,yes,no,no,no,...), and so on-namely, 2^1000. With entropy defined as the logarithm of the number of such rearrangements-1,000 in this case-entropy is the number of yes-no questions any one such sequence answers.

The mathematical analyses pinned down the quantity of information a given black hole contains, without providing insight into the information itself.

Witten's result showed that much as the Wizard of Oz's frightening visage was produced by an ordinary man, a rapacious black hole is the holographic projection of something equally ordinary: a bath of hot particles in the boundary theory (Figure 9.6). Like a real hologram and the image it generates, the two theories-a black hole in the interior and a hot quantum field theory on the boundary-bear no apparent resemblance to each other, and yet they embody identical information.

The best leaders assemble information and take actions that lead to political stability. The worst leaders dissemble information and generate chaos. —A lesson from Imperial history

The heartbeat steadied, their minds opened Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and the flow began, like a torrent through an open dam. Lobia poured her life into Anirul, transferring memories, aspects of personality, every bit of data contained in her long life. One day, Anirul herself would pass the information to another, younger Sister. In this manner, the Sisterhood's collective memory was amassed and made potentially available to all Bene Gesserit.

The Bene Gesserit occupied themselves with numerous breeding schemes, as if farming humanity for their own obscure purposes. They also commanded one of the greatest storehouses of information in the Imperium, using their intricate libraries to look at the broad movements of peoples, to study the effects of one person's actions amidst interplanetary politics.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership