Top 1200 Gathering Information Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.

Being honest means being forthright about information, no matter how painful disclosing that information might be.

I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

I hope to transform the way people think about health and information. Radio is a terrific medium to learn facts and figures easily and absorb new information.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain.

The owls are gathering; find out why soon.

Money and prices and markets don't give us exact information about how much our suburbs, freeways, and spandex cost. Instead, everything else is giving us accurate information: our beleaguered air and watersheds, our overworked soils, our decimated inner cities. All of these provide information our prices should be giving us but do not.

I feel it's important that in advising the president, if confirmed, that I deal with facts, that I deal with sufficient information. Which means having access to all information.

The term "informatics" was first defined by Saul Gorn of University of Pennsylvania in 1983 (Gorn, 1983) as computer science plus information science used in conjunction with the name of a discipline such as business administration or biology. It denotes an application of computer science and information science to the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in the named discipline.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.

I'm so full of useless information; I'm the kind of person that collects useless information. I like to know everything!

With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

When reporters are in the business of obtaining hard facts that service the free flow of information, journalists should have a right to obtain that information without fear of personal ruin or incarceration.

Based on research into the Picture Superiority Effect, when we read text alone, we are likely to remember only 10 percent of the information 3 days later. If that information is presented to us as text combined with a relevant image, we are likely to remember 65 percent of the information 3 days later.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

I think it could be the biggest information problem that we face. 'If somebody is abroad and they even mention the name of an American citizen, bang, off goes the tap, and no more information is collected.

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.

Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is possible to interpret the information carried by a message as essentially the negative of its entropy, and the negative logarithm of its probability. That is, the more probable the message, the less information it gives. Cliches, for example, are less illuminating than great poems.

People with autism flourish in domains where the information is consistent and predictable, and struggle most in domains where the information is ambiguous and unlawful.

Saddam Hussein's regime is a gray and gathering danger.

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 cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

Satan could make an "A" in my Systematic Theology course. He knows the information and knows that the information is true.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

What we get, and all we ever get, from the outside is information; how we choose to act on this information is up to us.

All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

Americans have a right to the security of their personal information, and the entities that hold personal information have a responsibility to protect it.

Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

I've spent more than a decade channeling information for and about men. I'm able to come and use this information, with the help of the research, to hand over the keys to the kingdom to women.

There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

It's beyond TMI - oversharing is not just too much information; it's incessant sharing of non-information - breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

In the 1990s, human intelligence gathering was seriously neglected.

In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.

Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh.

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.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide, and the new and powerful tools of information provide us with more opportunities than ever to react and act.