Information Quotes

“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Where people once sought information to manage the real context of their lives, now they had to invent contexts in which otherwise useless information might be put to some apparent use. The crossword puzzle is one such pseudo-context; the cocktail party is another; the radio quiz shows of the 1930's and 1940's and the modern television game show are still others; and the ultimate, perhaps, is the wildly successful "Trivial Pursuit." In one form or another, each of these supplies the answer to the question,"What am I to do with all these disconnected facts?" And in one form or another, the answer is the same: Why not use them for diversion? for entertainment? to amuse yourself, in a game?”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Introduce an alphabet to a culture and you change its cognitive habits, its social relations, its notions of community, history and religion. Introduce the printing press with movable type, and you do the same. Introduce speed-of-light transmission of images and you make a cultural revolution. Without a vote. Without polemics. Without guerrilla resistance. Here is ideology, pure if not serene.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Culture can be loosely defined as the body of non-genetic information which people pass from generation to generation.”
― Paul R. Ehrlich, The Population Bomb

“It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked.” It is not to deny or bury or go around your feelings or your thoughts about those feelings. It is to feel them, acknowledge them, and work with them—to understand what they are trying to tell you about you, about the situation—to let them show you where there is more work to be done without letting them overwhelm, unbalance, or trap you. They have information for you. Take the information, say thank you, and keep going.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“Am I oversimplifying here? Yes. Is all our media stupid? Far from it. Were intelligent, valuable things written about the rush to war (and about O.J. and Monica, and then Laci Peterson and Michael Jackson, et al.)? Of course.

But: Is some of our media very stupid? Hoo boy. Does stupid, near-omnipresent media make us more tolerant toward stupidity in general? It would be surprising if it didn’t.

Is human nature such that, under certain conditions, stupidity can come to dominate, infecting the brighter quadrants, dragging everybody down with it?”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“Technology continues to be used to change the way we experience museums and the ways we learn and absorb information.”
― Mackenzie Finklea, Beyond the Halls: An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums

“Completeness of crucial information is extremely important, as missing data is not only a cost issue but is also a massive lost opportunity issue...”
― Rupa Mahanti, Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“No matter what happens, the point here is to sponge up information from your counterpart. Letting your counterpart anchor first will give you a tremendous feel for him. All you need to learn is how to take the first punch.”
― Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

“The greatest knowledge is to know that what we know is always less than what we need to know.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Now, why aggressive, anxiety-provoking, maudlin, polarizing discourse should prove more profitable than its opposite is a mystery. Maybe it's a simple matter of drama: ranting, innuendo, wallowing in the squalid, the exasperation of the already-convinced, may, at some crude level, just be more interesting than some intelligent, skeptical human being trying to come to grips with complexity, especially given the way we use our media: as a time-killer in the airport, a sedative or stimulant at the end of a long day.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“The more you socialize, more you increase your exposure of being vulnerable to give up vital information to your rivals.”
― Himangshu Shekhar

“The more you socialize, the more you increase your exposure of being vulnerable to give up vital information to your rivals.”
― Himangshu Shekhar

“You do have a choice. You can play. You can leave. But for the one who wants info, the chance is the best game of all," Wataru grinned playfully. She conjured up her own seat and sit in it. She mimicked his postsure as she played, an impish grin on her face, "Wouldn't you think so, Louie?”
― Marko D. Cabcoon, Warring Dreams

“Today, more than ever, it is necessary to compare what has been, what we are experiencing and what has been created by the huge market of illusion and manipulation. It is no longer enough to be prepared and well-informed, to search or find an alternative version of the official one: it has to be verified and observed with one’s own incisive spirit, in accordance with reality, listening and sifting through a plurality of voices, facts and situations.
This is the only way that we will be able to observe what is going on with a more objective eye, in relation to the contemporaneity we are living in.
Reality requires more witnesses in order to show it and change it.”
― Jacopo Brogi, 30 Years of United Photo Press Creative Artists

“The robots tell me a lot, and they’re everywhere, but their analysis only goes so far and they have no instincts.

You want info, consult the machines. You want insight, talk to people.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“I will try to demonstrate by concrete example that television's way of knowing is uncompromisingly hostile to typography's way of knowing; that television's conversations promote incoherence and triviality; that the phrase "serious television" is a contradiction in terms; and that television speaks in only one persistent voice-the voice of entertainment.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Radio, of course, is the least likely medium to join in the descent into a Huxleyan world of technological narcotics. It is, after all, particularly well suited to the transmission of rational, complex language. Nonetheless, and even if we disregard radio's captivation by the music industry, we appear to be left with the chilling fact that such language as radio allows us to hear is increasingly primitive, fragmented, and largely aimed at invoking a visceral response;”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Hello everybody.
I'd like to talk a bit about my book Deep Inside a Psychopath's Mind.
Well, for those that would like to read the book and would like to know about the story and about what could be found In The Depths of Psychopathic characters, let me tell you that this book contains everything (Or almst everything) relating to gruesome behaviour! Any kind of tortures, from physical torture to psychological torture, I wrote about canibalism, bloody scenes, sex scenes, and in many chapters of the book there are all kinds of words (Vocabulary) related to gruesome procedures.

With this, what I mean is that this book is intend for adults only, and better said, for persons that do not have any problem reading about matters related to adults
Thus, if any of the potential readers have any religious, cultural or perhaps special phylosophycal believes, I sincerely won't recommend this book to you.

I want to explain all the above as clearly as possible:
When I thought about to write the book, I though I should go where perhaps other writers have not gone! And in order to achieve that particular task, I wrote everything as clearly as possible, not mincing any word, not concealing any act, and indeed, what I wrote is waht I heard many persons (Psychopaths saying about Psychopathic matters)

The last thing: Although this book could be violent and also very scaring, and perhpas shocking, there is a reason for all that to happen! And only if you read the book untill the last page/line, would be able to understand the whole story, it means that if you stop in the middle of the book, you will never know why those crazy acts were taking place.”
― Just-Thony, Deep Inside a Psychopath's Mind

“The degree of data quality excellence that should be attained and sustained is driven by the criticality of the data, the business need and the cost and time to achieve the defined degree of data quality.”
― Rupa Mahanti, in Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“You do not need to have zero percent data issues... In other words, you do not need 100% data quality.”
― Rupa Mahanti, in Data Quality: Dimensions, Measurement, Strategy, Management, and Governance

“There is no time for philosophy.”
― Monaristw

“It is sterile and dangerous to believe that one dominates the entire world thanks to the Internet when one does not have enough culture to filter good information from bad information for consumption, all of them in competition for the unbearably fleeting and distracted attention of potential customers, striving to capture that attention beyond the blink of an eye.”
― Zygmunt Bauman

“It is not to be without emotion or feeling but to be one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked.” It is not to deny or bury or go around your feelings or your thoughts about those feelings. It is to feel them, acknowledge them, and work with them—to understand what they are trying to tell you about you, about the situation—to let them show you where there is more work to be done without letting them overwhelm, unbalance, or trap you. They have information for you. Take the information, say thank you, and keep going.”
― Tim S. Grover, Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness

“Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Scholastic ELT Reader)

“We have solved the problem of not having enough information by creating the problem of having too much information.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“That way you are protected with adequate information in case something unexpected comes up.”
― Jim Camp, No: The Only Negotiating System You Need for Work and Home

“The worst-case scenario might be: Information arrives in the form of prose written by a person with little or no firsthand experience in the subject area, who hasn't had much time to revise what he's written, working within narrow time constraints, in the service of an agenda that may be subtly or overtly distorting his ability to tell the truth.

Could we make this scenario even worse? Sure. Let it be understood that the Informant's main job is to entertain and that, if he fails in this, he's gone. Also, the man being informed? Make him too busy, ill-prepared, and distracted to properly assess what the Informant's shouting at him.

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Welcome to America, circa 2003.”
― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone

“There are tremendous amounts of energy and information packed into a single image, including your personal story. Your tattoo also contains the emotions, thoughts, and actions that make your story even bigger.

Other energies that we are often do not see, such as color, emotion, shape, and symbology, are also embedded in that image. This data is packed in a
tattoo much like a movie is packed on a DVD,
where that energy can be accessed and released so
that you and others experience it over and over
again.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“Advertisers have known for decades what researchers are verifying in numerous studies: Images contain information and energy that profoundly affect your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Images determine your future.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know