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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
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Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.
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Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
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Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
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Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.
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Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.
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The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.
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I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.
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Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.
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I can pass on a lot of information. I'm just never going to be the 21-year-old Penny Hardaway again.
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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
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The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
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So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.
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A modern audience is capable of processing just so much information because they're used to visual media that's on overload.
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