Quotes About Information

the writer: a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death. Then he can be given a mythic personality: 'he spent time among us, betrayed us, and took the material across the border.

Remember: (1) you are there to work and produce, not to find your best friend or to endear yourself to the whole workplace; and (2) the 360-degree Jesus didn't share too much personal information and rarely answered a question directly.

misinformation

Everything's a data point.

Programmers have a saying: garbage in, garbage out.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously declared; but in modern America a lot of people do believe that they're entitled to their own facts.

Modern life is one sweeping, cradle-to-grave invasion of privacy. An encroachment on our ever-narrowing space. Our footprints in the sand are a billion bytes on a thousand hard drives. Fodder for the snoop and the historian alike.

With info-capitalism, a monopoly is not just some clever tactic to maximize profit. It is the only way an industry can run.

la tecnología de la información, lejos de crear una forma nueva y estable de capitalismo, está disolviendo el sistema capitalista en general, porque corroe los mecanismos de mercado, socava los derechos de propiedad y destruye la tradicional relación entre salarios, trabajo y ganancias.

Only extraordinary leaders take the initiative and seek out this training. Generally, most of today's officers feel that they don't need the training, or that it is too easy. Yet these are the same officers who are overwhelmed in the stress of combat while trying to process all the incoming information under chaotic conditions.

Nobody disappears completely anymore. The only thing that's disappeared is privacy, which is never coming back. And which is probably a good thing. Why should anything be private? No hiding, no guilt, no shame. Just a completely transparent world.

What a lot you know.' I laughed and said it was one of the few advantages of old age, to be a repository of bits and pieces of casual information that sometimes come in useful. But she said she didn't really mean that, she meant know as distinct from remember.

If the Internet were everything it is cracked up to be, we would all stay at home and be brilliantly witty and insightful. Yet with so much contradictory information available, there is more reason to travel than ever before: to look closer, to dig deeper, to sort the authentic from the fake; to verify, to smell, to touch, to taste, to hear and sometimes - importantly - to suffer the effects of this curiosity.

It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive

This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

The kickboxing and the martial arts is so fun. It's like anything in school. You're not going to retain information unless you're interested in it.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Too much information about nothing.

Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.