- 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
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.
- Enrichment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only in the United States could you believe that people could be changed by information.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsession with concealing embarrassing information, controlling the flow of information, and punishing anyone who stands in the way. But, at least theoretically speaking, it is the job of journalists to impede that effort, not to serve and enable it.
- Glorify
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020