Information Quotes - page 7

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations. View quote
Brian De Palma
The difference between a leadership and a command company can be very great indeed, because in a hierarchical situation, people who have concerns about reactions against themselves would simply not put forward negative information. View quote
Marvin Bower
Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents. View quote
Josh McDowell
My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District. View quote
Gabrielle Giffords
The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open. View quote
Maya Angelou
An extrapolation of its present rate of growth reveals that in the not too distant future Physical Review will fill bookshelves at a speed exceeding that of light. This is not forbidden by general relativity since no information is being conveyed. (David Mermin)
We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country, but among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential of the Information Age. View quote
Al Gore
Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Americans are good people. They have no aggressions against us and they like us as we like them. They must know I don't hate them. I love them.... I hear it is a complex society inside. Many Americans don't know about the outside world. The majority have no concern and no information about other people. They could not even find Africa on a map. I think Americans are good, but America will be taken over and destroyed from the inside by the Zionist lobby. The Americans do not see this. They are getting decadent. Zionists will use this to destroy them. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
I have been so satisfied with the Christian religion that I have spent no time trying to find arguments against it. ... I am not afraid now that you will show me any. I feel that I have enough information to live and die by. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed. View quote
Max Tegmark
It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time. View quote
Roger Ebert
The purpose of scientific enquiry is not to compile an inventory of factual information, nor to build up a totalitarian world picture of natural Laws in which every event that is not compulsory is forbidden. We should think of it rather as a logically articulated structure of justifiable beliefs about nature. View quote
Peter Medawar
I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. View quote
Christa McAuliffe
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. View quote
C. J. Cherryh
The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. (Henry A. Wallace)
Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever. View quote
Will Self
An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution. View quote
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh