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Quotes About Information

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.
~ George Papandreou
Wars are won with quills and ravens, wasn't that what you said?
~ George R.R. Martin
Science is the response to the demand for information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.
~ George Santayana
we will face a day, not long from now, when all of our information comes from digital sources, meaning that rumors and untruths can spread even more quickly than before.
~ George Takei
beyond important news, let's face it: Facebook and Twitter are filled with information no one really needs to know.
~ George Takei
The best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world.
~ George W. Bush
He is arguably the most well-informed man in the world, yet he rarely reads newspapers.
~ George Weigel
My family's ignorance of the world they lived in was always a source of worry to me, and I never lost an opportunity of imparting information.
~ Gerald Durrell
Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong. Testing does not improve a product; the improving is done by people fixing the bugs that testing has uncovered. Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different cost category.
~ Gerald M. Weinberg
Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God.
~ Gerald Schroeder
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
~ Napoleon
We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
~ Wendell Phillips
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
~ R. B. Sheridan
Some of the papers presented at today's medical meeting tell us what we already know, but in a much more complicated manner.
~ Alphonse Raymond Dochez
Accurate information is a key part of motivation.
~ Mary Ann Allison
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
~ Voltaire
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
~ Clifton Fadiman
What you see is news, what you know is background, what you feel is opinion.
~ Lester Markel
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know; the second, is to find out who will tell you.
~ John Gunther
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
~ Fred Friendley
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
~ Thomas Jefferson