- Containing
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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
- Compliant
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my book, I detail the critical information we obtained from al Qaeda terrorists after they became compliant following a short period of enhanced interrogation. I have no doubt that that interrogation was legal, necessary and saved lives.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
By assessing the capabilities and knowledge of students in the highest-performing and most rapidly improving education systems, the OECD's Program for International Student Assessment provides valuable options for reform and information on how to achieve it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and it's time to just unplug and look within.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are drowning in information.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.
- Naked
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020