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“The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.”

Looks May Eye Pain Vision Seeing Information Objects Source Perspective Taste Meetings Hearing Smell Senses Temperature

Author:Richard Gregory

“And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.”

May Made Might Levels Worry Information Higher Comfort Users Inference

Author:Edward Felten

“Thoughts, words, ideas and information, free from any bonds or restrictions, is the very concrete which pours out a foundation strong enough that upon which a house, stable and lasting, of true freedom and liberty may be built.”

May Ideas Enough House Politics Strong Liberty Information Built Foundation Lasting Stable Concrete Strong Enough Restriction Freedom And Liberty True Freedom

Author:Derek R. Audette

“It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.”

May Doe Age Information Equal More Money Overwhelmed Information Age

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.”

People Thinking May Seems Information Fundamentals Access Access To Information

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.”

People Knows Years May Shows Information Youth Spring Acquire Spring Time

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.”

May Doe Seeing Information Source Motive Accurate Psychics Channeling

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In principle, there’s nothing wrong with the concept of an infographic. What concerns me is the types of things that people are doing with them. They get far off topic, or the fact checking is really poor. The infographic may be neat, but if the information it’s based on is simply wrong, then it’s misleading people.”

People Ifs May Facts Poor Principles Information Type Concepts Concern Topics Mislead Neat

Author:Matt Cutts

“Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed.”

Way Years May Lying Information Letters Cancer Cures Agency Officials Sections Veteran Institute Dean Congressman Fda Phds Cancer Cure American Cancer Society

Author:Barry Lynes

“May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it?”

Source: The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution

“The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.”

“This is the key of modern science and is the beginning of the true understanding of nature. This idea. That to look at the things, to record the details, and to hope that in the information thus obtained, may lie a clue to one or another of a possible theoretical interpretation.”

Looks May Ideas Lying Understanding Records Modern Information Keys Details Interpretation Clue Theoretical Modern Science True Understanding

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.”

May Seems Values Dies Mankind Information Acceptance Survival Appreciate Fundamentals Appreciation Prerequisites

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.”

May Mean Able Energy Differences Information Ready Making A Difference Transformed Units Pathways Implicit

Author:Gregory Bateson

“It's a truism that denials never quite catch up with charges. Honest journalists who may have mistakenly printed false information know that the most prominent retraction never quite undoes the damage done by the original publication.”

Knows May Done Honest Information Originals Journalism Denial Journalist Damage Never Quit Printed Publication Prominent Truism

Author:Tom Wicker

“In abbreviated form, by a kind of symbol, only the most essential information is passed on and passed on only to those concerned. It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change, or a system of telecommunications which enables individual producers to watch merely the movement of a few pointers, as an engineer might watch the hands of a few dials, in order to adjust their activities to changes of which they may never know more than is reflected in the price movement.”

“There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient, and a random one. In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.”

Knows May Differences Taken Information Variables Guessing Predicting

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating. ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information.”

Ifs Giving May Reason Courses Information Eating Mathematics Proof Reasoning Description Ingredients Recipes Tested Procedures Prescriptions Calculus Cookbook Inventory Pudding

Author:George Polya

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective.”

World Way May Doe Government Nations Information Citizens Ordinary Intention Around The World Agency Apologizing Nsa Intelligence Agencies Ordinary Citizens Intelligence Services

Author:Barack Obama

“There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.”

Thinking Way Firsts May Three Ability Focus Pieces Information Rounds Data Streams Contemplating Interrupted

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.”

Want Writing May Book Ideas Might Certain Creativity Pieces Information Produce Inspired Broads

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“One man may have some special knowledge at first-hand about the character of a river or a spring, who otherwise knows only what everyone else knows. Yet to give currency to this shred of information, he will undertake to write on the whole science of physics. From this fault many great troubles spring.”

Knows Men Giving Writing Firsts May Whole Character Hands Trouble Special Information Spring Rivers Mathematics Faults Physics One Man Currency

Book:Essays

Source: Essays

“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.”

Knows May Different Form Lost Bits Environment Information Disappear Confused

Author:Leonard Susskind

“Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.”

May Information Rising Investors Volatility

Author:Alex Berenson

“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.”

“Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such information should be easy to search, focused on the user's task, list concrete steps to be carried out, and not be too large.”

Ifs Should May Helping Used Easy Steps Information Tasks Focused Lists Users Concrete Documentation

Book:Usability Engineering

Source: Usability Engineering

“More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.”

May Real Ends Facts Stuff Share Information Real Life Chains Posts Viral One Friend

Author:Ben Parr

“There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.”

Ifs May Has Beens Stills Information Debate Torture Assumption Justified

Book:Who Rules the World?

Source: Who Rules the World?

“For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!”

“The issue of climate change, it really does bring home the fact that we are on one planet, and that some of the impact of what human beings do in one corner of the world is going to affect people in a distant corner of the world. So we may still feel very far from each other, but we are really very close to each other because of the changes we have made with travel and technology and especially the information technology.”

“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.”

“One may receive the information but miss the teaching.”

May Teaching Missing Information

Book:The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

Source: The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967

“[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.”

Humans May Book Desire Sleep Information Ready Please Spring Breasts Neglected

Book:Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry

Source: Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry

“Information may inform the mind, but revelation sets a heart on fire.”

Mind Heart May Fire Information Revelations Heart On Fire

Author:Matt Redman

“A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.”

“Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.”

Inspirational Wells May Motivational Animal Information Planets Function Critical Our Planet Dolphins Regeneration

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.”

Way May Book Ideas Stories Shows Levels Issues Our Lives Risk Share Information Television Depth Backgrounds Reports Shock New Ways Superficial Television Shows

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently”

Source: Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory

“My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying "Random accidents ahead", "Life's a lottery, Be lucky."”

Wells May Humor Funny Fall Rocks Information Lucky Accidents Favourite Lottery Road Sign Sign Sayings

Author:Jimmy Carr

“Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.”

“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

People May Government Political Politics Freedom Liberty Information Secure Rulers 4th Of July Secrecy Transparency Concealed Fake People Transactions Concealment

Author:Patrick Henry

“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.”

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing it of destructive misinformation, so that creativity can be liberated.”

Source: Science, Order, and Creativity

“When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.”

Thinking World Way Feels Mind Looks May Long Lines Too Much Information Safe Patterns Recognition Sane Emerging Constellations Straight Lines Blur Too Much Information

Author:Douglas Coupland

“Certainly, when it comes to my profession as a journalist, that allows the government to trace what you're reporting, who you're talking to, and where you've been. So no matter whether or not I have a commitment to protect my sources, the government may still have information that might allow them to identify whom I'm talking to.”

May Stills Matter Government Might Talking Information Source Protect Commitment Profession Journalist

Author:Laura Poitras

“Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information”

“It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an event may happen or fail. With the degree of information we possess concerning the circumstances of an event, the reason we have to think that it will occur, or, to use a single term, our expectation of it will vary. Probability is the expectation founded upon partial knowledge.”

Thinking May States Reason Use Happens Term Failing Events Information Acceptance Circumstances Degrees Expectations Mathematical Probability Vary

Book:An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

Source: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

“Cryptography products may be declared illegal, but the information will never be”

May Information Products Illegal Cryptography

Book:Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C

Source: Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C

“Some of you may think that you are not of interest because you don't have access to classified information. You are mistaken.”

Thinking May Interest Information Access Mistaken Classified Information

Author:Dan Payne