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Information Quotes


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this."


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


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


"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."


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


"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."


"Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties."


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


"Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information."


"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."


"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."


"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."


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


"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"


"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist."


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


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


"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."


"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 think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis."


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


"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."


"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."


"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."


"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."


"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."


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


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


"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."


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