“I think we're all a party to this information all the time. It's every day, in a way we probably weren't a few years ago. We're more informed, which is a good thing because war is always there somewhere on the planet.” ThinkingWayYearsWarPartyInformationPlanetsYears AgoGood Things Author:Kate Bush
“You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.” PeopleHumansPersonsHappensCitiesDyingInformationLike YouDiseaseCapableConsequenceOvercomingMajorityClimateAddictionClimate ChangeHuman HistoryPredictingUnderwaterFood Supply Author:Moby
“The consumer has become increasingly sophisticated in the way they obtain and digest information - of the simple reason that they've become comfortable about building and maintaining their own personal brands. This has thickened their "filter" and as a result made them become more critical towards advertising and communication.” WayMadeReasonSimpleResultsInformationBuildingCommunicationComfortableCriticalAdvertisingBrandsConsumersSophisticatedMaintainingFilters Author:Martin Lindstrom
“I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.” ThinkingNeedsEasyActingInformationNewsGet Back Author:Barbara Boxer
“I use the iPhone now for information. But with selfies, I don't know what those people are doing. It's like they believe what they see is real, even with the [filters]. And God bless them! But to me, it's not a self-portrait, it's a reality project.” PeopleKnowsBelieveRealSelfUseRealityInformationProjectsBlessPortraitsGod BlessIphoneFiltersSelf Portrait Author:Alex Katz
“The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable. The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us. But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI's investigation, so there's anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak. We've published about 33,000 of Clinton's emails when she was Secretary of State.” TryingLooksMadeStatesGivenInformationWeakClintonFormerInvestigationSecretaryEmailMistressAlways TryingCiaFbiUntouchablesClassified Information Author:Julian Assange
“All in all, the internet is a force for good, providing young entrepreneurs with access to an incredible wealth of information, has changed the way we see the world and is also a great source of innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities.” WorldWayYoungOpportunityForceWealthInformationChangedSourceInternetInnovationEntrepreneurIncrediblesAccessProvidingEntrepreneurialYoung Entrepreneurs Author:Richard Branson
“I definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information.” InformationGoes OnResearchInstinctGutsGut Instinct Author:Richard Branson
“That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U.S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.” GivingYearsHas BeensFeelingsPoliticalNextHouseWhiteResultsInformationGive MeElectionBraveCampaignsHeatWhite HouseApplicationPublishingNext YearAsylumsFebruaryPrincipledEcuador Author:Julian Assange
“WikiLeaks does not publish from the jurisdiction of Ecuador, from this embassy or in the territory of Ecuador; we publish from France, we publish from, from Germany, we publish from The Netherlands and from a number of other countries, so that the attempted squeeze on WikiLeaks is through my refugee status; and this is, this is really intolerable. [It means] that [they] are trying to get at a publishing organisation; [they] try and prevent it from publishing true information that is of intense interest to the American people and others about an election.” PeopleTryingMeanDoeCountryInterestNumbersInformationElectionIntenseFranceGermanyTerritoryPublishingOther CountriesRefugeePublishOrganisationWikileaksJurisdictionNetherlandsEmbassyEcuador Author:Julian Assange
“One of the striking things about doing research on Malcolm X, and I believe that most Malcolm X researchers could tell you their own stories, is that there's this paradox of the absence of critical information.” BelieveStoriesI BelieveInformationResearchCriticalAbsenceParadoxResearchers Author:Manning Marable
“When I started photographing Patti [Smith], I knew that there wasn't a whole a lot of information out there about her. I was periodically interested in films, and so I just kept asking her if I could come around.” IfsWholeFilmInformationAskingIf I Could Author:Steven Sebring
“We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both of those experiences are really important to communicating information, especially when that information involves complex ideas.” TwoImportantIdeasDifferentUseInformationDesignPagesComplexesCommunicateDifferent ThingsPassagesTypographyTwo Different ThingsLayout Author:Michael Bierut
“I view the art scene as an industry which is slowly developing. These days, technology has mad the world smaller. Meaning that information is a website away.” WorldArtViewsTechnologyInformationIndustrySceneMadDevelopingThese DaysWebsite Author:St. Lucia
“I think we need to get to the bottom of it. And I think there should be an investigation [of hackers attacks] because in order to defend ourselves against other adversarial countries, we have to protect our information.” ThinkingNeedsShouldCountryOrderInformationProtectBottomInvestigationHackers Author:Rand Paul
“One of the things that came out of the campaign, as I recall, was a high ranking [Hillary's] Clinton official, I believe, sent their password via email. We also need to learn how to protect our own information. And I think that's important as well.” ThinkingNeedsBelieveWellsImportantI BelieveInformationProtectClintonCampaignsOfficialsRecallsEmailRankingPasswords Author:Rand Paul
“The American officials should learn to deal with reality. Why did the United States fail in most of its wars ? Because it always based its wars on the wrong information. So, whether they believe or not, this is not reality.” ShouldBelieveWarStatesRealityUnitedDealsUnited StatesFailingInformationOfficials Author:Bashar al-Assad
“My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very few possess innately.” ThinkingMotherAnswersInformationHungerThirstNew Information Author:Trevor Noah
“We didn't know what was coming next. And, you know, this is not just about computers; this is harassment of individuals, it's harassment of our candidates, harassment of our donors. We had stolen information, personal information. People were personally harassed.” PeopleKnowsNextIndividualInformationComputerCandidatesStolenHarassmentDonorsPersonal Information Author:Donna Brazile
“If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to have direct access to AP wires. The day the marines landed in Haiti and restored [ Jan Bètran] Aristide there was a lot of excitement about the dedication to democracy and so on. But the day before the marines landed, when every journalist was looking at Haiti because it was assumed that something big was happening, the AP wires reported that then [Bill] Clinton administration had authorized Texaco to ship oil illegally to the military junta.” IfsLooksBigsDemocracyHappenedMilitaryInformationHappeningsFlowDirectBillsPressesConstantClintonOilAccessShipsAdministrationJournalistExcitementDedicationMarineWireHaiti Author:Noam Chomsky
“The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.” ProblemCultureInformationTraditionOral Tradition Author:Jerry Garcia
“The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic.” IfsWantMayDoeStillsImportantRealityOrderInformationColorInvisiblePerceiveAestheticSpectrumContinuation Author:Jerry Garcia
“Irrespective of when this may happen, it would not be an exaggeration to say that today millions of people living in Russia and, I am sure, millions of people living in Japan have an urge to get to know each other, cooperate and exchange useful information, as well as a sincere desire that all problems that still remain unresolved be resolved.” PeopleKnowsWellsMayStillsProblemHappensTodayDesireMillionsInformationRussiaJapanUrgesSincereExaggerationUseful Information Author:Vladimir Putin
“The first art in caves were really psychedelic experiences, and the reason that they were is because the tribal encyclopedia, the amount of information that people needed to know in order to move to a new way of life, suddenly increased over that period of time.” PeopleKnowsWayFirstsArtReasonMovingOrderInformationAmountNeededPeriodsNew WaysCavesPsychedelicEncyclopediaPsychedelic ExperienceNew Way Of Life Author:Howard Rheingold
“We are all constantly transmitting information to the people around us, and the messages we choose to communicate either create success or hold us all hold back.” PeopleInformationMessagesCommunicate Author:Michelle Gielan
“I think that happens for a lot of people, they have this idea that there's only one type of way to write poetry and that you have to have this information. You have to know about meter, you have to know about form, you have to know about iambic pentameter, and all of that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingIdeasHappensFormInformationTypeMeter Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about.” ThinkingGivingShouldStillsMomentsLawAbilityDemocracyInformationAmountProtectEuropeThreatTerroristBeing TrueWorriedBordersLaw EnforcementEnforcementEffectivenessLiberal DemocracyInformation Sharing Author:Barack Obama
“Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.” PeopleIfsTryingAbleHurtOur LivesInformationProtectPercentFinanceDataOur SocietyTelephonesConstraintsPersonal Information Author:Barack Obama
“You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.” WayGivingMindCertainPiecesInformationAnchors Author:Michael Lewis
“Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.” PeopleSocialMediaInformationChangedSocial MediaReceiving Author:Barack Obama
“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.” PeopleIfsFactsProblemAgeSocialSoundMediaInformationSeriousArgumentPhonesSocial MediaPropagandaBitesSound Bites Author:Barack Obama
“Man, just tryin' to get as much sleep as possible, to drink in water, and tryin' to make sure that my people give me the proper information to be able to get in front of people and speak. That's all I need.” PeopleMenNeedsGivingAbleSpeakWaterSleepFrontsInformationDrinkGive Me Author:Kanye West
“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.” NeedsLittlesLongI CanBitsCan DoSleepInformationLittle Bit Author:Kanye West
“I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.” TryingBookFilmActingInformationCraftsPlanesHelpful Author:Eric McCormack
“One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.” PeopleThinkingWayFormInterestingWrittenCenturyInformationArgumentTasksGenrePleasantProseNonfictionVersesRhymeInteresting Things18th CenturyConveying Author:Robert Hass
“After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. Therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.” PeopleShouldTryingDoeIdeasReasonFormStuffImaginationSpecialInformationExpressionArgumentMereProsePopeRomanticism Author:Robert Hass
“I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even in terms of being, to a degree, naïve. Because naiveté comes from lack of information.” TermInformationDegreesImpactJesuit Author:Sergio Leone
“You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had played on that, and kept all these friends they had made, and found a way of dealing with the terrorists through co-operation of international intelligence services, police exchange of information.” WayMadeFoundSupportInformationMonthsPoliceIncrediblesInternationalTerroristOperationsRecallsIntelligence Services Author:Kofi Annan
“In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function.” PeopleShouldAbleActionPoliticalBlackCommunityOpinionInformationTypePoliticianProgramFunctionFruitDetermineMatureBlack PeopleReceivingFulfillingBlack CommunityPolitical Action Author:Malcolm X
“An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.” WayProblemOrderCultureInformationProductsSolvePsychological Author:Howard Gardner
“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.” PeopleWaySometimesSocialTechnologyMediaInformationSourceTownsConstantPlantSocial MediaEmploymentPrimariesConcreteGlobalizationManufacturingPrimary Source Author:Barack Obama
“The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different.” DifferentTodayDealsInformationAmountAdministration Author:Barack Obama
“How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.” HouseProcessUnderstandingPresidentWhiteDecisionSecurityInformationFinalsSurfaceChiefsWhite HouseMakersStaffNational SecurityAdviserDecision MakersChief Of Staff Author:Barack Obama
“I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.” UseEnergyWhiteEconomicEventsInformationStudentsCommunicationWorkersLibraryElectricalCollarsPatronPortalAppliancesWhite Collar Author:Tom Peters
“MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.” WayLittlesBookMemoriesTalkingPlayerInformationCommunicationOffersDataVisualsDigitalDevicesFlashPresentationStorageMp3Information And CommunicationMp3 Players Author:Tom Peters
“If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.” IfsImportantChallengesEnvironmentInformationCommunicationMajorsLibraryWideDevicesUsersDiverseTechnologicalAnticipate Author:Tom Peters
“Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.” ShouldInformationUnderestimatedPortability Author:Tom Peters
“Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.” PeopleInformationPocketsDigitalTrendsDocuments Author:Tom Peters
“I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information. Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.” MayImportantUsedCultureEasyMy OwnInformationAccessUsed To BeErasVisibleDaily LifeDevicesSkepticismEnteringAdoptedFilesSkepticalEducatorSpoken WordNew Era Author:Tom Peters