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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
- Billions Of Dollars
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big companies, which spend tens of billions of dollars annually on 'call centers' to take orders and provide customer support, increasingly rely on speech recognition not just to handle requests for information but to process customer orders.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
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There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very confident that that information should be sufficient for the members of the Senate to make an informed decision about John Roberts' qualifications.
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Information is not knowledge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.
- Every Single Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to change information in books, but if we have everything online, then a somewhat untrustworthy group of people controlling the thing - which I think is what we have - gives us '1984.'
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- Nov 07, 2020