Quotes About Information

The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

The problems are hidden inside code and data, which makes them harder to see and easier to ignore.

Though it is closely linked to computer science, data journalism is generally considered a social science.

a principle called the unreasonable effectiveness of data.

Historical impulse. "The desire to see things as they are, to find out true facts and store them up for the use of posterity." Political

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect.

people around you filter information, often with good intentions.

Database Development

the first historical information on the Templars is provided by a Frankish historian, Guillaume de Tyre, who wrote between 1175 and 1185.

Scholars note that human reasoning is limited not only by imperfect information and innate intellectual capacities but also by the broader culture that subsequently shapes the very optics that individuals use to categorize the world.

The amazing but in retrospect unsurprising fact established by the diligent work of many investigators in laboratory evolution over decades is that the great majority of even beneficial positively selected mutations damage an organism's genetic information—either degrading or outright destroying functional coded elements.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Well, I think first of all there was a failure to have real, clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time, accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.

That seemed to be the way of the world these days; get a few basic details of an event or incident, then craft a narrative around it. It was not about spreading information, but getting clicks and attention.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.

They become overly fixated on wringing insights out of data that just aren't there, or setting up entirely new information systems, rather than focusing on the information at their disposal and what it really suggests about strategic priorities.

Finally, you can use the information you collect during this first-cut prioritization and planning process to sketch out an early road map. The map will give you focus, help you understand how to deploy resources and talent most efficiently,

He would have planned to engage in a systematic learning process—creating a virtuous cycle of information gathering, analyzing, hypothesizing, and testing.

Our lean beginnings created the strategic management principles that define our culture: Less is more. Information is better than inventory. Ingenuity is better than investment. Execution is everything. No excuses.

Bean mentions that the tree does not flower until 30 to 40 years of age. American references have stated 10 to 14 years. All authors, including this one, tend to pass along time-honored information without determining, first hand, the actual response in question.

Consumers will only be able to play a bigger role in their care, and make better choices, if providers and health plans realign competition around patient results and disseminate the relevant information and advice.