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Information Quotes


"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."


"The Internet is a great information tool, and can be a place where kids learn, but we must remember that when kids are online, they are in public."


"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."


"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."


"It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved."



"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides."


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


"We have a way of dealing with information that has sort of personal - personally identifying information in it. But there are legitimate secrets - you know, your records with your doctor; that's a legitimate secret. But we deal with whistleblowers that are coming forward that are really sort of well motivated."


"Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5."


"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."


"The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them."


"No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely."


"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."


"As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years."



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


"It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material."


"I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. You can make something that looks like a head, with fewer dots, but you won't be able to give much information about who it is."


"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."


"We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and get their feedback."


"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."


"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."


"A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked."


"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers."


"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."


"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."


"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."



"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already."


"I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations."


"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."


"Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview."



"Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use."


"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."


"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States."


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



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


"I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides."



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


"Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information."


"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."


"Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side."


"An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product."


"I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research."



"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."


"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."


"As more information becomes available, and the magnitude of the storm's impact becomes even more apparent, it becomes clear that this recovery will be lengthy."


"Be able to notice all the confusion between fact and opinion that appears in the news."



"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."
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