Quotes About Information

It was a rigorous result in information theory that once you could learn in a sufficiently flexible manner – something humanity had achieved in the Bronze Age – the only limits you faced were speed and storage; any other structural changes were just a matter of style.

People are tired of this mainstream shit; television and radio is ghastly and the public can smell the corporate meeting. When you watch a show with Simon Cowell, you know no human touch has been near it, that they've carefully engineered the outcome and picked those they're going to humiliate. We live in an age of information glut, but so many people don't question what they're spoon-fed or bother to search for themselves.

People today. You know how to work everything, but you don't know how anything works.

It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

The responsibility matrix is often referred to as a RACI ("Ray-Cee") matrix or RASIC ("Ray-Sick") matrix. The acronyms represent each level of potential responsibility. R—Responsible A—Accountable C—Consulted I—Informed R—Responsible A—Approve S—Support I—Informed C—Consulted

Tüm bilgilerin özünde iyi ara?t?rma yatar.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Who says Television isn't educational, as soon as the T.V. comes on I read a book.

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

There can be no question to-day of a paper rich enough to allow its contributors to air their personal opinions, and such opinions would be of slight weight with readers who only ask to be kept informed or to be amused, and who suspect every affirmation of being prompted by motives of speculation.

the Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson encapsulated Boas's insight into a pithy maxim: "Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey." The crucial differences between languages, in other words, are not in what each language allows its speakers to express—for in theory any language could express anything—but in what information each language obliges it speakers to express.

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

we will have learned to understand and express all of physics in the language of information.

But information is physical.

Even when money seemed to be material treasure, heavy in pockets and ships' holds and bank vaults, it always was information. Coins and notes, shekels and cowries were all just short-lived technologies for tokenizing information about who owns what.

The fractal dimension of a metal's surface, for example, often provides information that corresponds to the metal's strength.

Clearly—or almost clearly—the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowing fantastic juxtapositions and leaps of imagination. Some chaos exists out there, and the brain seems to have more flexibility than classical physics in finding the order in it.

By their dependence on the spoken word for information, people were drawn together into a tribal mesh . . . the spoken word is more emotionally laden than the written. . . . Audile-tactile tribal man partook of the collective unconscious, lived in a magical integral world patterned by myth and ritual, its values divine.3

La escritura daba la impresión que alejaba al hombre del conocimiento, que almacenaba sus recuerdos. También alejaba al orador del oyente, colocándolo a muchos kilómetros o años de distancia.