Quotes About Information

Yuh-huh. They spooled it off the back of a big boat. My dad said it was for the bird sanctuary's telecommunications and Internet system. I asked him if birds use landline phones and Web browsers. He told me that information was classified.

Multichannel reuse: can you carry the information provided by customers on one channel across to our other channels (especially from online into brick-and-mortar)?

I'm thinking of the quote you cite from Levi-Strauss—"a universe of information where the laws of savage thought reign once more.

The faster the story, the less truth is associated with it. This is especially the case on breaking stories.

As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Regarding incident at Reiden Lake," Walter read out loud, pausing to exchange a significant glance with Bell. "Meet me at the northwest corner of Alamo Square Park at midnight 10/23. Crucial new information has come to light. A friend in the Bureau.

Information that might be useful—or at least good to know before we open the way again. Forewarned is forearmed.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

The problem of rapidly evolving technologies or "digital migration" was rather alarmingly illustrated in England in the 1980s with a considerably larger amount of information. Actually, it began in 1086 with the Domesday Book. The first public record ever made in England, the Domesday Book was instigated by William the Conqueror, who wished to take a census of his people and, more specifically, their possessions.

genealogy companies have quietly and steadily expanded to become some of the biggest data organizations of the twenty-first century.

Totalitarian power thrives when it alienates people from basic information about themselves. When European slavers abducted people from Africa, they essentially took away their history as well.

It is well known that onset of the disease is affected by lifestyle, yet even when the at-risk subjects were given information about their susceptibility, many did not adjust their fat intake or increase exercise or consult medical specialists to minimize their risk.

Language is the real information highway, the first virtual world. Language is the worldwide web, and everyone is logged on.

Once you have that feeling of that great mystery, any piece of information feels like a treasure trove. Whether it's a name or a place where somebody once was, it's a form of a connection that you thought you were never going to have.

The "Sea of Lies" article in Newsweek (July

Zal wasn't sure whether it would help an uninformed

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Optimismus ist nur ein Mangel an Information.

His puppets have a nihilistic spirit, if you'd understand what I meant by that. Sometimes his puppets won't perform at all. He just lets them sit there, watching us. Then he has them look at each other and then back at us until it feels as if they have information, some kind of dreadful information about each and every one of us, and you begin to wish they'd decide to keep their mouths shut forever.

But she had learned that it was smart not to reveal that all her senses were in full working order; instead, she allowed people to act in accordance with their own preconceptions. This was often a useful source of information, and Maud could form her own opinion of the person and the situation.

John Maddox, the editor of the British journal Nature, had immediately suggested that the minister should be told that the Higgs boson can be explained similarly to the way we visualize the W and Z bosons: as carriers of information and effects. They permit us to understand effects that would otherwise look like long-distance action across empty space in the absence of any carrier.

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Science is facts.