Quotes About Information

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

Our minds have a bottleneck in the so-called "working memory" that allows us to keep only a few simple things in them at any one time.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time

Truth is emotional, it's fluid, and above all, it's human. No matter how quick we get with computers, no matter how much information we have, you'll never be able to remove the human from the truth-seeking exercise.

Using information about animal behavior to justify social or political ideology is wrong . . . People need to be able to make decisions about their lives without having to worry about keeping up with the bonobos.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Memory…is not the mechanical recording device people often think it is. Memory is anything but constant, anything but indubitable. It shifts and fades, blooms and dies, steps out for a cigarette and blows tendrils of information and emotion back under the door.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it.

Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to fuck with us.

humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there's nothing you can do about it.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

I never asked clients for information if I could help it. (For a lot of reasons but close to the top was the all-too-common suicidal lack of attention to detail humans were prone to.)

machine-readable code written into human DNA

I cannot reveal how the UVF knew the precise characters of both men's statements but I have been informed that the UVF leadership were aware of the content of Moore's statement within forty-eight hours of it being made.

For diagrams comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

Martin Fowler NoSQL Distilled: "In general, with remote communication you want to reduce the number of round trips involved in the interaction, so it's useful to be able to put a rich structure of information into a single request or response." Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" "Due to the latency costs of remote calls, it's better to err on the side of sending too much data than have to make multiple calls.

Facts are not science - as dictionary is not literature.

Over the last decade, we've experienced astonishing advances in communication and in access to information. Our lives have been hugely enriched by consumer electronics and web-based services that we would willingly pay far more for, and which surpass any expectations we had a decade ago. And the impact on the developing world has been dramatic: there are more mobile phones than toilets in India. Mobile

The Internet offers access, in principle, to an unprecedented variety of opinions and information. Nonetheless, it could narrow understanding and sympathies rather than broaden them: some people may choose to stay closeted within a cybercommunity of the likeminded.

Q: I'm in the fact business, Chief. I avoid the news and opinion channels.