- Election
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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
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of technology is going to change the fact that people process information visually.
- Forecasts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, economic forecasts must be revised when new information arrives and are thus necessarily provisional.
- Patient
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- Nov 07, 2020
The key is to cut out the middleman and empower both doctor and patient with information about what things cost.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The NSA's business is 'information dominance,' the use of other people's secrets to shape events.
- Almost
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020