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Information Quotes


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


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information."


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


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


"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."


"Working in the digital domain, you're using approximations of things; the actual sound wave never enters the equation. You deal with sections of it, and you're able to do so much more by just reducing the information to a finite amount."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers."


"Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process."


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


"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."


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


"Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application."


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


"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."


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere."


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


"An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."


"Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A."


"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."


"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."


"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."


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


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


"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."


"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."
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