300 Quotes on Information

• Integral shifts often cloud the nature of growth; what appears refined can revealologies of identity carved in grace and nuances.

  Author: Liora Chen

• People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

  Author: Shoshana Zuboff

• That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

  Author: John Zorn

• I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot.

  Author: Pia Zadora

• This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

  Author: Thom Yorke

• Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could use WMDs, is by acquiring information that allows for pre-emptive action.

  Author: John Yoo

• If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.

  Author: John Yoo

• While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

  Author: Boris Yeltsin

• I outline fairly extensively because I'm usually dealing with real events. I don't need to give myself as much information as I used to, but I still like to have two pages of outline for every projected 100 pages of manuscript.

  Author: Chelsea Yarbro

• The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes.

  Author: Wilhelm Wundt

• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

  Author: Gary Wright

• I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

  Author: Bob Woodward

• The mere imparting of information is not education.

  Author: Carter Woodson

• You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

  Author: Tobias Wolff

• Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced.

  Author: Markus Wolf

• Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

  Author: Samuel Wilson

• The First Amendment does not guarantee the press a constitutional right of special access to information not available to the general public, nor does it cloak the inmate with special rights of freedom of speech.

  Author: Pete Wilson

• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  Author: E. Wilson

• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

  Author: Norbert Wiener

• To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

  Author: Norbert Wiener

• Since other countries and terrorist organizations are working to secure information that could threaten national security, more funding is provided in the bill to increase counter-intelligence activities.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

  Author: Roger Wicker

• So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.

  Author: Kim Weston

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  Author: Irvine Welsh

• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• I would never jeopardize classified information to be brought out to the public. This information is all open source. There is no reason to worry about classification. It is simply an attempt by bureaucrats to cover their rear ends.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

  Author: Amy Weber

• I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

  Author: Bill Watterson

• What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

  Author: John Warnock

• Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.

  Author: Mark Warner

• To tell an ally - who is shedding blood next to you - that you can't share information is a crime.

  Author: David Warner

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

  Author: Jim Walton

• All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

  Author: John Walters

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• As you lecture, you keep watching the faces, and information keeps coming back to you all the time.

  Author: George Wald

• We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• 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.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• If you combat an international phenomenon, it is indispensable to share information internationally.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

  Author: Gijs Vries

• The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree.

  Author: Paul Volcker

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  Author: Vernor Vinge

• We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

  Author: Bruce Vento

• And it turned out that the Roberts Commission did not fully utilize the information available and that it came to conclusions which were I think quite short sighted and, indeed, in some cases, scapegoated individuals.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• The real question was, here we had this information, Bin Laden intends to strike in the United States. We knew they had struck before in 1993 at the World Trade Center in the first bombing of the trade center.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers.

  Author: Richard Veniste

• Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

  Author: Jeff Tweedy

• The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

  Author: Mark Twain

• 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.

  Author: Edward Tufte

• So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

  Author: John Thompson

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  Author: E. Thompson

• Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

  Author: Helen Thomas

• I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

  Author: Studs Terkel

• I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

  Author: James Talent

• When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.

  Author: Patricia Sun

• We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

  Author: Patricia Sun

• No two people take on the information of being admirable and being admired in the same way.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.

  Author: Ruben Studdard

• When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

  Author: Peter Straub

• There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

  Author: David Strathairn

• On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

  Author: Clifford Stoll

• Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• Now the interesting thing about the movie is that many of the questions it raised about the Warren Commission and its investigation were all investigated by our committee 13 years ago. We published our findings in 27 volumes of information and evidentiary material.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

  Author: Louis Stokes

• As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous.

  Author: Joseph Stiglitz

• We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

  Author: David Stiers

• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Author: Bruce Sterling

• Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

  Author: Gertrude Stein

• I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• I don't believe anyone has leaked grand jury information.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

  Author: Kenneth Starr

• But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

  Author: Henry Stanley

• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

  Author: Steven Spielberg

• In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

  Author: Albert Speer

• Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

  Author: Thomas Sowell

• I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

  Author: Theodore Sorensen

• In the New York Times, you're going to get completely different information than you would in the USA Today.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• We had to depend on other institutions to do research on our behalf. We had to use the information that already existed to craft the best practices to distribute throughout the country. And we had to do all of that in ten months.

  Author: DeForest Soaries

• History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.

  Author: Robert Smithson

• Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

  Author: John Smith

• Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.

  Author: John Smith

• Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

  Author: Frederick Smith

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  Author: Tavis Smiley

• Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

  Author: Joe Slovo

• They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

  Author: Joshua Slocum

• It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

  Author: Michael Simpson

• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

  Author: Herbert Simon

• With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  Author: Sam Sheppard

• I don't think that people in America are really given enough information about the Third World.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

  Author: Charlie Sheen

• It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

  Author: Christopher Shays

• To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

  Author: Cliff Shaw

• Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

  Author: Claude Shannon

• The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• The President also talked at length about how well the American economy is doing. Apparently, he got his information on this topic from his millionaire supporters. For the average working family, these are trying economic times.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.

  Author: Jim Sensenbrenner

• All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.

  Author: William Scranton

• But the issue became, how long do you keep the press waiting so that you can gather more information?

  Author: William Scranton

• And it was at that point that I realized, in fact, our whole administration realized, that we could not rely on Metropolitan Edison for the kind of information we needed to make decisions.

  Author: William Scranton

• We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

  Author: Tony Scott

• I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

  Author: Tony Scott

• We live in an information and knowledge-based economy.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.

  Author: Dwight Schultz

• And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.

  Author: Michael Schudson

• The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

  Author: Eric Schmidt

• The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

  Author: Serge Schmemann

• And they talk about their bona fide doctors. They have a list of doctors that signed affidavits from looking at a picture of Terry. That's where they get their information from, by looking at a picture.

  Author: Michael Schiavo

• Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

  Author: Anne Schaef

• This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

  Author: John Scarlett

• I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

  Author: Gerald Scarfe

• Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges.

  Author: John Sayles

• Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

• 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.

  Author: Edward Sapir

• I mean the fact is that some of this information that we have found out that led to Usama bin Laden actually came from these enhanced interrogation techniques.

  Author: Rick Santorum

• Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

  Author: Eric San

• I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

  Author: Eriq Salle

• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

  Author: Jonas Salk

• President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

  Author: Carl Sagan

• With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• Guantanamo allows us to secure dangerous detainees without the risk of escape, while at the same time providing us with valuable intelligence information on how best to proceed in the war against terror and prevent future attacks.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

  Author: Dora Russell

• See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

  Author: Donald Rumsfeld

• For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

  Author: Michael Rostovtzeff

• In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of.

  Author: Rick Ross

• Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

  Author: Rick Ross

• This consists of a series of meetings that may last several days through which information is provided that may include reviewing documentaries, news programs, court records and certain reports about the group in question.

  Author: Rick Ross

• Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

  Author: David Rose

• Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.

  Author: David Rose

• So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

  Author: Richard Rogers

• Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

  Author: Nora Roberts

• We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

  Author: Tony Robbins

• American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.

  Author: Slick Rick

• Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me.

  Author: Denise Richards

• We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the problem is that, since 1998, there has been no way to even get minimal information about those programs except through intelligence means.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq.

  Author: Jack Reed

• It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

  Author: Robert Redford

• Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  Author: Man Ray

• Our intelligence community needs better coordination of operations and exchange of information, and that's why we need an overall director of national intelligence and a national counterterrorism center.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• First, the security and privacy of sensitive taxpayer information is absolutely essential.

  Author: Jim Ramstad

• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

  Author: Ted Rall

• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  Author: Manuel Puig

• Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• The proof is in the pudding when they come home. Will we have the data about their health, will we know where they were stationed, what their unit deployments were? I will need that information.

  Author: Anthony Principi

• The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

  Author: Anthony Price

• I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

  Author: Jon Porter

• We need to make sure that the fast-growing States and the balance of States in this country have as much information as available because I cannot imagine the pain as a parent myself of having my child molested by someone in our schools.

  Author: Jon Porter

• The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

  Author: Pete Pont

• Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

  Author: Pete Pont

• Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

  Author: John Pomfret

• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

  Author: William Pollard

• But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.

  Author: Michael Polanyi

• It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

  Author: John Poindexter

• I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.

  Author: John Poindexter

• Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

  Author: John Poindexter

• So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric.

  Author: John Podesta

• We put people of concern on the watch list or the no-fly list, so we have a number of layers of security beyond the airport checkpoint. We gather as much information about a passenger as the law allows without profiling.

  Author: John Pistole

• But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.

  Author: Collin Peterson

• We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

  Author: William Perry

• I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

  Author: Robin Penn

• In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

  Author: Bill Pascrell

• And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations.

  Author: Brian Palma

• You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

  Author: Brian Palma

• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  Author: Larry Page

• Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

  Author: Joy Page

• We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

  Author: Michael Oxley

• Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

  Author: Major Owens

• There is no way for the American economic system to function without advertising. There is no other way to communicate enough information about enough products to enough people with enough speed.

  Author: John O'Toole

• I was endorsed by many corporations to work with their people. Since I had several hundred successful case histories, I realized that it was really valuable and everybody should have access to the information, so I started teaching seminars to groups of people.

  Author: Leonard Orr

• Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.

  Author: Daniel Okrent

• I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

  Author: David Ogilvy

• Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town.

  Author: Charlie Norwood

• Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

  Author: Donald Norman

• It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.

  Author: Donald Norman

• Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably need this information when you check me into the Betty Crocker Clinic.

  Author: Cynthia Nixon

• I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.

  Author: Lennart Nilsson

• Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

  Author: Arthur Nielsen

• We hope that there will be better policy-making and hope to see projects implemented. We have lots of information that can be used for the implementation of projects.

  Author: Phumzile Ngcuka

• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Author: Bob Ney

• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  Author: Arnold Newman

• It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

  Author: Michael Nesmith

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.

  Author: Robert Nelson

• We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack.

  Author: Bill Nelson

• In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

  Author: John Naisbitt

• Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

  Author: John Naisbitt

• We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

  Author: John Naisbitt

• If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.

  Author: Story Musgrave

• Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• I am pleased that the President has signed an Executive Order this week requiring federal agencies to disclose information about prices and quality of healthcare services.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

  Author: Timothy Murphy

• What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information.

  Author: Cillian Murphy

• It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

  Author: Cillian Murphy

• I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

  Author: Michael Mullen

• I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• In the United States, it's the mandate of the FBI to gather information relating to terrorism, go out and collect it, to do the interviews, to do the investigative work.

  Author: Robert Mueller

• The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

  Author: Bill Moyers

• I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information.

  Author: Jean Moulin

• The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

  Author: Estelle Morris

• India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

  Author: Yoshiro Mori

• Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

  Author: Daniel Moran

• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

  Author: Thomas Moore

• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Author: Robert Moog

• I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

  Author: Meredith Monk

• She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

  Author: Maria Monk

• To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

  Author: Merton Miller

• So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

  Author: Merton Miller

• Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

  Author: Merton Miller

• Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

  Author: Merton Miller

• The Age of Information, Has turned out to be the Age of Ignorance.

  Author: Mark Miller

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  Author: Gary Miller

• I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

  Author: Breckin Meyer

• I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.

  Author: Russell Means

• I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

  Author: Vince McMahon

• 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.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  Author: Marshall McLuhan

• The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

  Author: Phil McGraw

• But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

  Author: John McEnroe

• 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.

  Author: Josh McDowell

• For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

  Author: Craig McCracken

• They work in secrecy. I can't get any information. You can't find out anything until they get out to the floor. And it's hard to lick em at that stage. They're a closed corporation. When they stick together, you can't lick em on the floor.

  Author: John McCormack

• Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

  Author: John McCarthy

• I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well.

  Author: Anne McCaffrey

• When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.

  Author: James McBride

• I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

  Author: James McAvoy

• 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.

  Author: Christa McAuliffe

• What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

  Author: Walter Martin

• The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information.

  Author: Mike Marsh

• The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.

  Author: Marc Maron

• Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers.

  Author: Merrill Markoe

• Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts.

  Author: Marla Maples

• For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

  Author: Peter Mandelson

• A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

  Author: James Madison

• Video just accesses international information so much more readily.

  Author: Ann Macbeth

• Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made.

  Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard

• The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

  Author: Ken Lucas

• Believing that our greatest need is for the general public to be able to get better information, to have an opportunity to learn better the real issues of the less fortunate, we centered the activities of the Fairness Project on that.

  Author: Mike Lowry

• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  Author: H. Lovecraft

• We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

  Author: John Locke

• What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  Author: Dan Lipinski

• I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

  Author: Jet Li

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