- Nov 07, 2020
Information Quotes
What we know, how we get it, and who controls it.
These information quotes span a wartime account of physicists comparing notes across borders, a case for treating the internet as more than just open access to ideas, and technical descriptions of how scientists actually gather data, from nuclear radiation measurements to brain tissue analysis. See Internet for the modern angle on this theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Art History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
So great is society's demand for information that we can no longer say that all the news gathered is worthy of airing. Much of it is not.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.
- Heartbeat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was convinced that the trading frequency measured a fundamental heartbeat of financial markets. Clearly it reflected the flow of information. It turns out also to be closely related to measures of liquidity.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find Facebook absolutely fascinating because I don't think there's ever been any one source that had so much information about each of us - who we talk to, who our friends are, what books we read, what we're buying, what movies we saw, what our travel is.
- Novel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
- Atomic Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bilateral talks would have to achieve cessation of the missile work by the North Koreans. And it would have to include, as did the Iranian deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency or some other group coming in to assess that and to enforce that to give information about it internationally.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020