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Information Quotes


"If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost."


"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


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


"The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information."


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


"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."


"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."


"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"For your information, I would like to ask a question."


"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."



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


"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


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


"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."



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


"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."


"Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one."


"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."


"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."


"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself."


"You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer."


"Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves."


"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."


"Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs."


"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."


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


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


"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."
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