Quotes About Information

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

We hardly find traces of information about their presence. One didn't take notice of the dogs, because their presence was taken for granted.

This business of giving people what they want is a dope pusher's argument. News is something people don't know they're interested in until they hear about it. The job of a journalist is to take what's important and make it interesting.

He expressed appreciation for the information I provided, taking a dozen pages of notes in his small neat hand, and asking plenty of questions, not to challenge but just to elucidate. He did offer a pointed comment about what he called our dodge with Helmar, with his ward upstairs, and I rebutted.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Let's return to our Excel spreadsheet. Imagine entering data about yourself in cell A1. In cell B1 you'll find the deed to your house, and in cell C1 is information about the buyer. Each cell is a block. Within each block is data. And the three blocks are linked together in a chain. A blockchain.I

The lesson: Be aware of the incredible power of social media and the dangers of reacting to news that you haven't verified.

Markowitz's ideas on stock diversification eventually became known as efficient market theory (EMT). This is the general concept that markets are efficiently pricing securities based on known information, and therefore a market portfolio is the most efficient portfolio.

Overconfident investors generally believe that they have more knowledge and information than they actually have. As a result, they tend to trade too much and underperform the market.

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master computer at the Library of Congress. Or there will be no libraries and librarians, flesh-and-blood or otherwise. The onetime library patron will press a button and turn a dial on his TV, whereupon the requested book, in the desired language, will appear on the screen, the pages turning at the designated speed.

Thomas has privileged information about the health status of Jesus in the period after the crucifixion

He [Edward Snowden] has been careful with his info, doling it out to responsible news organizations — The Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, etc. — and not tossing it up in the air, WikiLeaks style, and echoing the silly mantra "Information wants to be free." (No. Information, like most of us, wants a home in the Hamptons.)" – Richard Cohen, Washington Post (10/22/2013)

2. We can't do evidence-based policy without evidence.

You might think that employees have especially good information about their firm's future prospects, but a careful study by Shlomo Benartzi (2001) finds otherwise. Specifically, there is no correlation between the allocation to company stock and subsequent stock performance.

people make good choices in contexts in which they have experience, good information, and prompt feedback—say, choosing among ice cream flavors.

They do less well in contexts in which they are inexperienced and poorly informed, and in which feedback is slow or infrequent

Social influences come in two basic categories. The first involves information. If many people do something or think something, their actions and their thoughts convey information about what might be best for you to do or think. The second involves peer pressure. If you care about what other people think about you (perhaps in the mistaken belief that they are paying some attention to what you are doing—see below), then you might go along with the crowd

Drawing on some well-established findings in social science, we show that in many cases, individuals make pretty bad decisions—decisions they would not have made if they had paid full attention and possessed complete information, unlimited cognitive abilities, and complete self-control.

Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

We process information so efficiently that we don't dwell on thoughts and words anymore—we flit incoherently from one set of distractions to the next.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

The blessing of endless information: the Internet, democratizing even health care. Suppose we gave all pharmaceuticals an Amazon rating. The wisdom of crowds. Do away with experts altogether.

But America, it turns out, really is the greatest country. The people are so kind, the land is rich beyond imagining, and the authorities will cut a deal for useful information, even after booking you for multiple crimes.