“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.” ThinkingWorldPastArtistBitsBrainInformationComputer Author:Gerald Scarfe
“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.” BitsInformationAmountHigherUltimateCurrentsLaptops Author:Seth Lloyd
“In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.” WellsLittlesBookTogetherBitsTermPathInformationSourceSceneLittle BitYeahNarrativeNonfictionMultipleDescribing Author:Ben Mezrich
“I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.” FeelsShouldIdeasEnoughMomentsStoriesFeelingsTogetherCoursesBitsInterestingEmotionInformationSceneShapesBeing TrueThat MomentArcsFeels RightMoment Of Truth Author:Michael Winterbottom
“Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.” FeelingsPastBeliefBitsMemoriesSimpleInformationReplay Author:Daniel Schacter
“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.” MovingBitsLevelsTechnologyImpossibleInformationLeavingMeaninglessFragmentsCyberpunkPersonal Information Book:Burning Chrome Source: Burning Chrome
“The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm always grabbing something out of the headlines, out of the news or reading a book about astronomy and just trying to figure out how to get my head around the facts but the bigger stress is trying to connect those facts to normal life situations and our relationship with God.” TryingLittlesBookFactsLife IsReadingBitsSituationFiguresInformationNormalLittle BitNewsResearchBiggerStressGood ThingsAstronomyOur RelationshipGatheringHeadlinesRelationship With GodNormal LifeGrabbing Author:Louie Giglio
“[On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.” IfsWayMindStillsHomeNightBitsDecisionDoorsFrontsInformationFolksDataComing HomeGoing OutStereotypeProcessingFront Doors Author:Fay Faron
“The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.” PeopleLittlesMightBitsCitiesAliveInformationExampleWalkingLateTraditionVariousGuidesSpotsBurningShopsNeighborhoodSquaresListenersEnlighteningLiteralLandmarksRecitingTour Guides Book:Me Talk Pretty One Day Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day
“Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn't disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It's just converted into a different form.” KnowsMayDifferentFormLostBitsEnvironmentInformationDisappearConfused Author:Leonard Susskind
“At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.” ChoicesBitsInformationFundamentalsBinaryYes Or No Author:James Gleick
“Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.” WayMayMeanProblemValuesBitsTermClassTechnologyInformationLet MeProfoundWorkersProfitProductionsIdeologySymbolsDevelopingRoughCaptureProblem SolvingTechnologicalLimbsEleganceHintsInformation TechnologyProletariatAnalystsBourgeoisieGeneralizationLet Me GoKnowledge WorkersNew Class Author:Steven Weber
“I think people are having less of an investment in relationships. It used to be that you meet someone, you go on four or five dates and you gradually get to know them and trust them at the same time, and you learn a little bit about them. Now, it could be one date - maybe even before that first date - you go on Facebook have all the information.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFirstsLittlesUsedBitsFiveFourInformationGoes OnLittle BitInvestmentUsed To BeFirst Date Author:Ashton Kutcher
“In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second.” NeedsPersonsOrderBitsProcessInformation Book:The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
“Meaning coming from feeling, feeling coming from within, you absorb a massive amount of information, it goes through your whole body, a little bit of it floats up to your head where there is deliberation. You are conditioned by the way your whole body is responding to what is going on.” WayLittlesWholeFeelingsBodyBitsInformationAmountLittle BitMassiveWithin YouFloatsRespondingDeliberation Author:Bill Henson