Quotes About Information

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

Beware of situations where there is no alternative to parsing text messages! If the information isn't available in other ways, people will parse any textual output generated by your code.

I think of myself as a political idiot. Idiot, in ancient Greece, denoted a common person without access to knowledge and information--all women, by definition, and most men. I am unable to make judgments. I see no options I can identify with. Is that normal?

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Richey James, the band's resident depressive and ropey rhythm guitarist, is less enthusiastic, despite appearing quite content. "I never find it exciting to go anywhere," he shrugs. "You get much more true information from literature than from travelling. Like, if I want to know about France, I'll buy the book.

One reason we misunderstand allegory is that we moderns think that reading is a matter of garnering information. For ancient Christians, reading scripture is a matter of being changed from one degree of glory to another, of being transformed (2 Cor. 3:18).

The future is a major abstraction, riddled with a million vibrating variables you can't control. The best information you'll ever have about a decision is at the moment of execution.

The fear of missing out. It's the affliction that drives obsessive checking of Twitter feeds, Facebook updates, Instagram stories, WhatsApp groups, and news apps.

It's JOMO that lets you turn off the firehose of information and chatter and interruptions to actually get the right shit done. It's JOMO that lets you catch up on what happened today as a single summary email tomorrow morning rather than with a drip-drip-drip feed throughout the day.

Share information that's valuable and you'll slowly but surely build a loyal audience. Then when you need to get the word out, the right people will already be listening.

People will respect you more if you are open, honest, public, and responsive during a crisis. Don't hide behind spin or try to keep your bad news on the down low. You want your customers to be as informed as possible.

perfect information is a luxury you can rarely afford. All you can do is make the best decision with whatever imperfect information you do have.

He saw his judgments as "something you polish." You look for confirming evidence and get tunnel vision. Judgments close your mind in dynamic situations, and you miss important but subtle bits of information that are critical to success. In many instances Gleason believed that if the leader made sense he could let go and have the crews make their own decisions.

know about me via legal means. But you cannot demand that I provide you with it. And if you press,

The primary purpose of the internet had changed from supporting a knowledge economy to growing an attention economy.

Even when we have access to the same data, we tend to notice different things. We are all moving along the same sidewalk, but the historian may notice the brickwork, the jogger the impact on her knees, and the fellow in the wheelchair the areas that are less accessible. We're engulfed by information—far too much to take in—and so we select small samples to pay attention to and ignore the rest.

Aceptar no significa conformarse. Se acepta para permitir que la información, tal cual es, sin distorsiones, pueda ser codificada, elaborada y transformada. La única forma de depurar un proceso es aceptándolo, primero, y esto es válido también, sobre todo, para el procesamiento cerebral de la información y para el logro de una unificación adecuada de la misma.

De acuerdo con la teoría sintérgica, la conciencia, y no la materia, es el fundamento de la realidad. Lo que denominamos materia es una manifestación de la conciencia. La conciencia tiene muchos niveles de manifestación, siendo el más básico uno en el cual existe una unidad total, una infinita concentración informacional y una máxima interconectividad. El desarrollo sintergico posee como modelo tal nivel de máxima sintergia.

People more often need to be reminded than informed.

If we go exclusively by the information we receive on a daily basis through the news reports and the mainstream media, then our assessment of the state of human affairs in this new millennium will necessarily be overwhelmingly negative, and we will most likely come to the depressing conclusion that nothing has changed. After all, it continues to be true for millions of people that the greater part of human suffering is not due to natural disasters, but is inflicted by humans on one another.

The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information — this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.