- Education
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- 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
- Nose
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
- Farther
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the characters and the information you bring into the room.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was very much exaggerated, this information campaign, this sustained campaign against us. But if I may... Over the process of years, it will thaw out. I mean, just gradually through contact, through dialogue, through investment.
- Everybody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we collect our information from the intelligence community in a variety of ways.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the administration's long public information campaign, for many months polls have consistently indicated only 37 percent of those eligible for Medicare say they only partially understand the program.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020