“Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.” MindLongFactsGovernmentTermChildhoodInformationPolicyFitIntentionNotionMakersBaggagePreconceptionsPolicy Makers Author:Barbara Tuchman
“What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.” WorldWayWellsStoriesAbleCoursesReadingHoursWrittenInformationSourceFitFindingsTake MeAnother WorldGemsWell Written Author:Linda Sue Park
“Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.” PeopleTryingHumansLongBookStoriesUniverseAnimalSpecialInformationFitLong TimeSmartUnusualExtinctionParadigmSmart PeopleVery SmartNew Information Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“I see the concepts spatially in my mind. I see the boxes and corrals and grids into which administrative systems require people, things and information to be fit in order to be legible, made to live, or in order to facilitate death and abandonment.” PeopleMindMadeOrderInformationFitConceptsBoxesAbandonmentFacilitateAdministrativeGrids Author:Dean Spade
“Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.” WorldWayPlayMovingOrderInformationFitAdmireQueensMonarchsNew InformationQueen Elizabeth Author:Samuel Barnett
“There's all of the DVD extra material and all these other pieces of information that don't fit into a 90-minute experience, but it's still content and people still want to see it. It's being open to [the fact that] the business is changing and being open to how you can make money to afford you to stay in business to keep making new things. I think you just have to have an open mind and be really smart about stuff and not be so locked into the conventional way of how the process used to go.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMindStillsFactsUsedStuffProcessPiecesMinutesInformationMaterialsFitSmartMaking MoneyExtrasLockedNew ThingsConventionalOpen MindDvdsReally SmartConventional Ways Author:Alex Stapleton
“It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” KnowsLittlesMatterStoriesKnowingInformationFitEasierPatternsConsistencyGood StoryCompleteness Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow