- Economics
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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
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mistakes, after all, are endemic to foreign and military policy given the unpredictability of events and the difficulty of securing reliable information in a place like Iraq.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to consider myself a detective, which is how I justify my obsession with my phone. By nature, since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a detective, and any portal to information and investigating things I have ever been given access to, I have dived into. With my phone, unfortunately, I have immediate access to everything.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby', so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telomeres are the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes in cells. Chromosomes carry the genetic information. Telomeres are buffers. They are like the tips of shoelaces. If you lose the tips, the ends start fraying.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.
- Resources
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration likes to say that it is 'pro-worker.' But something is amiss when its labor priorities are forcing unionization and labor contracts on American workplaces, and denying union members information on how their dues money is spent.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.
- Computational
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- Nov 07, 2020