“The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.” WorldYearsTwoDifferentTodayTechnologyInformationAreasMedicalInformation TechnologyMedical Technology Author:Bill Gates
“I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.” PeopleWayDifferentCultureSecretInformationPoliticianBasesFamiliarDifferent WaysHidingMentalityPalestinianPersonal LifeCulture Religion Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef
“The NFL has done a great job in giving players information on how to go to a second career after football and how to invest their money while they're playing to ensure when their career is over, that they have something else in place to fall back on. One of the big things the NFL does is promote education in different fields.” GivingDoeDifferentDoneBigsJobsFallCareersPlayerInformationFieldsFootballNflBig ThingsFall BackGreat Job Author:Kamerion Wimbley
“If I am used to looking at a paper chart and finding information that I know approximately where I'm going to look at that and now I have to go to a computer and find it a different way.” IfsKnowsWayLooksDifferentUsedInformationPaperFindingsComputerDifferent Ways Author:William Davis
“You curate information that you want to receive. It's a lot different because I'm not asking you if it's okay, I'm just saying I'm following your updates. That's why I don't think of Twitter as a social network.” IfsThinkingWantDifferentSocialInformationOkayAskingFollowingSocial NetworkJust SayingUpdates Author:Biz Stone
“It's really difficult to get good information, and there's a reason for that. They're not letting journalists in. Whenever something really bad is happening, we always are dealing with uncertain information. Certainly what is happening there is qualitatively different from what happening in Abyei.” DifferentReasonDifficultInformationHappeningsJournalistUncertainGood Information Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“The fact that the government had to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to Citibank in guarantees was a public declaration that Citibank was a mess. Making Citibank go through financial restructuring would not have conveyed any more different information. So it's very hard to see why it would have had that kind of a panic if it were done well.” IfsWellsKindDifferentHardDoneFactsGovernmentInformationDollarsFinancialBillionsMessGuaranteesPanicDeclarationRestructuringCitibank Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.” PeopleWellsMeanDifferentCommunityChallengesFictionInformationApproachScience FictionNarrativeColourHubDifferent Approach Author:Nalo Hopkinson
“We actually needed the memory - if you see the film - as a very different kind of a plot device of revealing some information to our main character. So we chose to represent it as these sort of beautiful little snow globes, which kind of, weirdly, that's the way we think of memories - at least, most of the folks that we talked to. You think of these memories as being very pure and absolute and unchanging. That's not actually real life.” IfsThinkingWayKindLittlesDifferentRealCharacterBeautifulFilmMemoriesInformationNeededPureAbsolutesFolksReal LifeSnowPlotDevicesDifferent KindsGlobesRevealingThink Of MeUnchangingMain Characters Author:Pete Docter
“Just because you can build a machine that is better than a person at something doesn't mean that it is going to have the ability to learn new domains or connect different types of information or context to do superhuman things. This is critically important to appreciate.” MeanPersonsImportantDifferentAbilityInformationTypeAppreciateMachinesDomainSuperhuman Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“If there are to be appropriate judgments about what questions are significant, you need both the informed views of scientists who know what has been achieved and what future developments are promising and the reflective judgments of representatives of different groups who can identify what kinds of information are most urgently needed.” IfsKnowsNeedsKindHas BeensDifferentViewsGroupsInformationDevelopmentNeededJudgmentScientistSignificantAppropriateRepresentativesFuture Development Author:Philip Kitcher
“Let's say I take a picture of the Eiffel Tower in front of the casino in Las Vegas. That type of pattern might suggest I'm just a tourist. But if my next one is of another dam or electrical station, someone might say 'Well, that's kind of strange'. What do the different pieces of the puzzle mean when you put them together? And one of the advantages of geographic profiling in geography is a common denominator for so many different types of information sources.” IfsWellsKindMeanDifferentMightTogetherNextCommonPiecesFrontsInformationStrangeSourceTypeAdvantagePatternsStationsTowersPuzzlesGeographyVegasLas VegasTouristsElectricalCasinosCommon DenominatorDamsEiffel TowerEiffel Author:Kim Rossmo
“The reason for the success of this somewhat communist-sounding strategy, while the failure of communism itself is visible around the world, is that the economics of information are fundamentaly different from those of other products.” WorldDifferentReasonInformationProductsEconomicsStrategyAround The WorldCommunismVisibleCommunist Author:Bruce Perens
“Those same people, when they leave the theater, when they look behind the curtains they are curious about their neighbors, they can guess if their neighbors are siblings or a couple, how old they are, what their occupation is. They are curious about each other and they can understand each other without being fed information. Why should it be different in cinema?” PeopleIfsShouldLooksDifferentBehindsInformationCoupleTheaterNeighborCuriousCinemaFedsOccupationCurtainsSibling Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“When I teach a new group of students, I introduce some yoga philosophy, but I don't overload them with information. Just enough so they understand the real tradition behind this ancient practice and that it's not a stretching class. Guys come in and they're a little nervous. I tell them that when they cross the threshold of the door, they're crossing to a different dimension. They're moving from an externally-oriented reality to an internally-oriented one.” LittlesDifferentRealEnoughPhilosophyRealityMovingGuyBehindsClassTeachPracticeDoorsGroupsInformationStudentsYogaTraditionCrossesAncientNervousDimensionsIntroducingCrossingsStretchingThresholdOverloadDifferent Dimensions Author:James Fox
“Collecting cookbooks is still my biggest passion! Believe it or not, I actually got the biggest form of inspiration from my kids. My kids do everything online. They would have their tablets in front of them watching hours upon hours of online videos. I came to understand that these videos were actually teaching my kids lots of different forms of information.” BelieveStillsDifferentInspirationKidsFormPassionHoursTeachingFrontsInformationVideoOnlineCollectingTabletsCookbook Author:Wolfgang Puck
“All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you can with it. So, there's a variance in the quality and the amount of the information. It's a case-by-case basis. Each one's different. There's no set formulas.” DifferentQualityCasesInformationSourceAmountEqualBasesFormulasDo The BestEvaluateVariance Author:Bill Belichick
“I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. But hey, you know what? That was five years ago, and now computers are faster, or some new information has come along, the world is different. So we're able to reboot the project.” KnowsWorldYearsIdeasDifferentAbleFiveInformationConversationComputerProjectsYears AgoHeyFasterFive YearsHey YouSummaryNew Information Author:Edward Boyden
“Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight.” ThinkingDifferentMomentsGivenWishDecisionLevelsInformationInsightThat MomentMaking DecisionsDifferent LevelsSorting Author:Barack Obama
“I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.” ThinkingTryingKindTwoDifferentReasonUseNextPresidentChallengesGroupsSecurityInformationIndependentStealingMaking MoneyDifferent KindsWarfareAdversariesHackingCyberCyber SecurityCyber Warfare Author:Hillary Clinton
“The concept of the "information society" is both vague and all-embracing. Different participants meant different things by it. In practice, though, World Summit on the Information Society only dealt with a small number of issues: ICTs and human rights (to some extent), ICTs and development (to some extent), infrastructure finance and Internet governance. Very large aspects of what might have been included in the "information society" were not really discussed.” WorldHumansHas BeensDifferentMightNumbersPracticeIssuesRightsInformationDevelopmentInternetConceptsAspectHuman RightsFinanceDifferent ThingsVagueMight Have BeenInfrastructureGovernanceSummitParticipantsSmall NumbersInformation SocietyIct Author:David Souter
“Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.” DifferentSelfBodyJoyEmotionBrainCompassionInformationMajorsYogaDown AndYour BodyCarrieNervesOrgansRegulationLike LoveSelf Regulation Author:Deepak Chopra
“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
“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