Top 1200 Information Science Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science can go. The rest, you know, are just fine with science. And it has been that way ever since the beginning.

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology.

Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.

A precondition for being a science fiction writer other than an interest in the future is that, an interest - at least an understanding of science, not necessarily a science degree but you must have a feeling for the science and its possibilities and its impossibilities, otherwise you're writing fantasy. Now, fantasy is also fine, but there is a distinction, although no one's ever been able to say just where the dividing lines come.

Science of yoga and ayurveda is subtler than the science of medicine, because science of medicine is often victim of statistical manipulation.

In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.

We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead. A world without problems to be solved would be devoid of science.

I think information lands in a different way, depending on who the conduit for that information is, who the interviewer is.

Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary importance. Science fiction tends to be more about the science, or the invention of the fantasy world, or the political allegory. When I left science fiction, I said "They're more interested in planets, and I'm interested in people."

The science-fictional motif of lethal, infectious information - bad memes - is a fascinating one, with an extended history. One of the earliest instances is Robert W. Chambers's 'The King in Yellow' from 1895. Chambers's conceit is a malevolent play: read beyond Act II, and you go mad.

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire.

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.

We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information.

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.

The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

The benefits of science are not only material ones. The truths that science teaches are of common interest the world over. The language of science is universal, and is a powerful force in bringing the peoples of the world closer together.

A lot of the best suspense operates on a careful withholding of information as opposed to the doling out of information.

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.

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

The things that get under my skin are when the premise of a question is based on inaccurate information, misleading information. That can be frustrating.

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

To bring the tools of science and to recognize that the flaw in the Cartesian Duality and to bring the tools of science to look at this question of mind and consciousness and to explore it using the tools of science â€" instead of saying, as has been the tradition for 400 years, that consciousness is not a proper subject for science to look at.

There's a lot of health information available on your smart phone. There's financial information. There's your conversations, there's business secrets. There's an enormous long list of things that there's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home, right. Which makes it a lot more valuable to all the bad guys out there.

If you will look into the Science of Spirit you will see that your life is meant to be sustained by the Science of God and not by the science of matter.

Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Whatever - containing and limited to our 'favorite sources of information.' Republicans do that; Democrats do it; environmentalists do it; terrorists do it; science fiction enthusiasts do it. That's a real problem, I think.

I need the information and then I can go. So, as long as I have the information and a little bit of sleep, I can do the rest.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.

Information agencies operate in an industry that values data. Restricted access to information is what makes it valuable.

Emotions are messengers that carry information. Spiritual growth depends upon receiving that information & using it.

I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest.

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.