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Quotes About Informational

I have analyzed the peculiarity of cultural capital, which we should in fact call informational capital to give the notion its full generality, and which itself exists in three forms, embodied, objectified, or institutionalized.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
There's little need to invest in the comprehensive instrumentation of the urban fabric with sensors, device controllers or informational displays when people themselves are already equipped with something that can act in all of these roles.
~ Adam Greenfield
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~ Kenzo Tange
I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.
~ Ezra Klein
To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.
~ Tim O'Brien
It was informational. About how to perform oral sex on men. You know, one man teaching another. It was really fascinating and I've always wondered about the techniques he discussed—ow. Ow! You're squeezing a little hard, Van Holtz." . . . "Well, if you're willing to be my test subject—ack!
~ Shelly Laurenston
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
~ Terence McKenna
What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out that others are doing something. It's also known as informational social influence.
~ Aileen Lee
the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
~ Kenzo Tange
In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.
~ Charles W. Pickering
The Aleph moment would be followed, on a timescale of seconds, by the degeneration of physics into pure mathematics. Just as the Big Bang implied pre-space before it – an infinitely symmetric roiling abstraction where nothing really existed or happened – the Aleph moment would bring on the informational mirror image, another infinite wasteland without time or space.
~ Greg Egan
Time. Compounding the expanding informational gap is the problem of organizational pressure and time. The salesman you're dealing with seems relaxed. His organization isn't visible.
~ Herb Cohen
It's possible to predict performance by ignoring all the informational content in the exchange and focusing on a handful of belonging cues.
~ Daniel Coyle
There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.
~ Unknown
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Design note: as we'll learn in Chapter 30, the __repr__ method is often used to provide an as-code low-level display of an object when present, and __str__ is reserved for more user-friendly informational displays like ours here.
~ Unknown
Three important characteristics of propaganda are that ( l ) it is intentional and purposeful, designed to incite a particular reaction or action in the target audience; (2) it is advantageous to the propagandist or sender which is why advertising, public relations, and political campaigns are considered forms of propaganda; and (3) it is usually one-way and informational (as in a mass media campaign), as opposed to two-way and interactive communication.
~ Unknown
To move my audiences to action, I'd need to ignite their passion, and to do that I had to put them inside the experience I was offering, not just the business plan. The keys to the kingdom weren't and never could be purely informational.
~ Peter Guber