“We don't really listen to what the other person is saying. We have gotten used to information being in such a concentrated form all the time, and so continuously, that conversation somehow seems inadequate for a lot of people, and therefore they can't join in it. You notice how many people can't argue anymore - without getting very upset.” PeoplePersonsSeemsFormUsedInformationConversationArguingUpsetInadequate Author:John Gimlette
“People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.” PeopleInformationUnityEquipment Author:Michael Azerrad
“We do need the federal government to share information with us. We need local governments to increase supply. We need affordable places for people to live.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentShareInformationIncreaseLocalsFederal GovernmentAffordableLocal Government Author:Christy Clark
“I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the research that goes into each of those.” PeopleInformationResearchEngaging Author:DJ Spooky
“If a lot of people feel like this company is undervalued and go out and buy the stock, the stock price will go up reflecting the higher value of this company. You might have information because you trade with them or because you've done some research on them.” PeopleIfsFeelsDoneMightValuesCompanyInformationHigherResearchTradeReflectingUndervaluedStock Price Author:Robert F. Engle
“Allowing short selling is allowing people to sell - instead of having to buy the stock and then sell it, which doesn't do much; allow them to sell it, and then buy it. In which case they can express that information and the idea is that you would get more accurate valuation of companies by letting people express both their positive information and their negative information through either long or short selling.” PeopleLongIdeasCompanyCasesInformationNegativeSellsSellingAllowingAccurateValuation Author:Robert F. Engle
“The communications revolution has given millions of people both a wider and more detailed understanding of the world. Because of technology, ordinary citizens enjoy access to information that formerly was available only to elites and nation-states. One consequence of this change is that citizens have become acutely conscious of environmental destruction, entrenched poverty, health catastrophes, human rights abuses, failing education systems, and escalating violence. Another consequence is that people possess powerful communication tools to coordinate efforts to attack those problems.” PeopleWorldHumansStatesProblemGivenNationsEnjoyUnderstandingPowerfulEffortEducationPovertyMillionsTechnologyRightsViolenceFailingInformationCommunicationRevolutionCitizensHealthyOrdinaryConsciousConsequenceToolsDestructionAbuseEnvironmentalHuman RightsAvailableAccessElitesCatastropheEducation SystemCoordinatesOrdinary CitizensAccess To InformationEscalatingEnvironmental Destruction Author:David Bornstein
“And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in this society, you have to be good at passing exams in school, which are taking in left-brain information overwhelmingly. Then you go to the next level, and so on so that by the time you reach any level of significant influence in society or the institutions of society, you are fundamentally locked into your left brain. Or at least the majority of people are.” PeopleIfsWayLooksSchoolNextLeftLevelsBrainInfluenceInformationCreatingInstitutionsMajorityBe GoodSignificantGravesPassingPassingsPrisonerLockedCradleExamNext LevelThis SocietyLeft Brain Author:David Icke
“Today in America many people are living in a virtual world. They enter it through an internet access device and they navigate freely around it, and those people who learn how to navigate better in that space are finding that they have better access to information about jobs and education and all the good things that our society produces.” PeopleWorldTodayJobsAmericaSpaceInformationProduceInternetFindingsGood ThingsAccessOur SocietyDevicesNavigateAccess To InformationVirtual WorldInternet AccessJobs And Education Author:William E. Kennard
“I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.” PeopleThinkingWayWantGroupsInformationMonkeys Author:Kristen Bell
“As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.” PeopleInformationTheaterConsumersFedsMoron Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“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
“In my films, I try to give people as little information as possible, which is still much more than what they get in real life. I feel that they should be grateful for the little bit of information I give them.” PeopleGivingFeelsShouldTryingLittlesStillsRealFilmBitsInformationLittle BitGratefulReal LifeBe Grateful Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I don't like that the government is going to manipulate the information to try to convince me that what I'm eating is not what I'm really eating. If people choose to eat cardboard because it's ten cents cheaper, then let them. That's at the root of freedom. But in the reverse, I'd like to know if what I'm eating or consuming or buying is somehow hurting or exploiting someone in another part of the planet.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingGovernmentHurtInformationPlanetsTenEatingRootsBuyingConvinceCentsReverseManipulateConsumingCheaper Author:Billy Corgan
“When we were doing the "Angel Dust" thing we got information from the National Institute of Drug Abuse because we knew that if we went out and said something about angel dust people were going to ask questions about it and we wanted to be sure we had all the information to deal with it when those questions came up. So it's all a question of being as prepared as possible out front, so that if you are going to deal with information it'll be correct. A lot of people won't check it out but some people will.” PeopleIfsSaidWantedAsksDealsFrontsInformationDrugAngelAbusePreparedChecksDustInstituteDrug Abuse Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“I used to want to kill myself because I had lost so much of who I knew I was because of all the other invalidation from people. It sends you spiraling where you're like, Wait, I know I have this quality, I know what my integrity is - until you're being fed all this false information about yourself. You start to wonder why. You don't feel good about yourself because you no longer believe in yourself.” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsBelieveUsedLostWaitingQualityWonderInformationIntegrityFeel GoodBelieve In YourselfFedsAbout YourselfBelieve In You Author:Tyler Blackburn
“What I did was permitted. My emails went to state.gov accounts. I did what I did, and I've said that it was a mistake. I've tried to do the best I could to get that information out to people.” PeopleSaidStatesMistakeInformationAccountsEmailDo The Best Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think the most exciting thing is access to information. People's ability to document things and expose things that may have not otherwise been documented and exposed. All the information you want is available instantly, which is overwhelming, but I think can have a positive change on the political process and accountability for leaders and corporations.” PeopleThinkingWantMayPoliticalProcessAbilityLeaderInformationExcitingAvailableAccessCorporationsAccountabilityOverwhelmingExposedDocumentsPositive ChangeExciting ThingsAccess To Information Author:Moby
“What I'm OK with is protecting the American people. What I'm OK with is, when people have the intent to come to this country and take American lives, that we are prepared to do what's necessary to gain the information to protect the people of this country.” PeopleCountryInformationProtectGainsPreparedAmerican Life Author:Mike Pence
“I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindTodayAbleLastsReadingTermTalkingMediaInformationReaderProjectsVisualsThrownBarriersAbsorbingAccessibility Author:Nate Powell
“Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed decisions. You know, increasing their awareness. And also, trying to encourage people to be more fascinated with information and science and knowledge of all sorts, instead of, you know, it's a generalization, but the encouragement by society, the reflections that society gives us, which is media, television, art - anything, really.” PeopleKnowsGivingTryingHumansArtDecisionLevelsAwarenessMediaInformationTelevisionHappeningsReflectionEncouragementFascinatedGeneralizationLife Happens Author:Reggie Watts
“The things that are reflected back at us, often times, are appealing to a base instinct that's about response as opposed to reflection. So for me, it's important to turn on a piece of information that might interest people, you know, that might interest them in pursuing or researching maybe, or even just thinking about it in that moment as I'm performing it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantMomentsMightTurnsInterestPiecesInformationReflectionInstinctResponsePerformingThat MomentTurn-on Author:Reggie Watts
“One of the things that I intend to devote a lot of time to in the coming years is continuing to try to move people's hearts and minds with humor, with stories, with anecdotes, with facts and information.” PeopleTryingYearsMindHeartFactsStoriesMovingInformationContinuingHeart And MindAnecdotes Author:Ted Cruz
“If I choose this platform [The Black Arts Movement] and God validates this platform, I feel like we have to use the hyper-reality to get people closer to [actual] reality. Right now is so special because it's the information age and people just want to be aware and there's no better way of doing that than through art.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsArtUseRealityAgeBlackSpecialInformationMovementRight NowPlatformsBetter WaysHyperInformation AgeBlack Art Author:Kofi Siriboe
“Unsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?” PeopleThinkingWantPersonsHelpingProblemGoalSituationSuccessfulInformationNeededCircumstancesNewsBlameFocusedGossipSuccessful PeopleUnsuccessful Author:Darren Hardy
“There are myriad government programs out there to help small businesses. Few people use them effectively. The maze of information makes it difficult for any one person to understand it all, which often leads politicians, and citizens, too, to call for more programs. We don't need more government programs; we just need a better way to access them.” PeopleWayNeedsPersonsHelpingUseGovernmentDifficultInformationCitizensPoliticianProgramAccessSmall BusinessBetter WaysMazesGovernment Programs Author:Sher Valenzuela
“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
“I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.” PeopleWantBelieveLongWholeAbleI BelieveInformationEvolutionAmountLifetimeNotionI Believe InAccessWhole LifeManagePersist Author:Robert E. Kahn
“The Kochtopus is the nickname that people who've worked for the Kochs came up with because there's so many tentacles and it likes the shadows. I really feel the first step is to provide the information.” PeopleFeelsFirstsStepsInformationShadowLikesFirst StepsNicknamesTentacles Author:Jane Mayer
“Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.” PeopleNumbersOne ThingInformationLibraryPublic LibraryEqualizer Author:Carla Hayden
“Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.” PeopleUsedPurposeForceCompanyPrinciplesRolesTechnologyInformationComputerDirectManagementContemporaryDevelopingCorporationsApplesOwnershipInformation TechnologyEliminating Author:Noam Chomsky
“You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHas BeensGovernmentRememberIndividualHalfRecordsFireInformationCrossesShould HaveGood ThingsClintonCaughtEmailTransparencyShould Have Been Author:Jill Stein
“When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.” PeopleThinkingWayWantNeedsEndsProblemTurnsSocialSimpleAbilityMoralCenturyInformationNeededStrategyAcquireEngineersMechanicCalculationsGhastlyOverestimateOverreaching Author:Allen W. Wood
“Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.” PeopleWayNeedsOrderWonderTechnologyCreativeInformationConstantBoredBellsSeductiveJunkieStimulation Author:Parker J. Palmer
“I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayYearsLooksLittlesSchoolIndividualStrongProcessChanceWorrySuccessfulInformationHigh SchoolVoteForgottenRationalBeing SuccessfulVotersIncentivesSkepticalCivics Author:Jason Brennan
“I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.” PeopleGivingInformationNotionRefuseComplicatedHandle Author:Barack Obama
“It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.” PeopleSaidReasonFacesWorrySecurityInformationTrumpRepublicanThreatChiefsAdministrationOfficialsCommentNational SecurityInvitationsCommandersPutinCommander In Chief Author:Hillary Clinton
“How do we prevent attacks? How do we protect our people?I think we've got to have an intelligence surge, where we are looking for every scrap of information.” PeopleThinkingInformationProtectScrap Author:Hillary Clinton
“I did the Daily Show, and then I did Air America Radio, and I realized that I was lucky enough to have a job where I could get information to people. But those spaces weren't appropriate to then tell people what to do - they were corporate enterprises. My main job was to be funny, so I was trying to figure out, how can I combine all the things I love - comedy, feminism, calling out bullshit - into a creative space that other creative people would want to join in and help out?” PeopleWantTryingEnoughHelpingShowsJobsAmericaSpaceCreativeComedyAirFeminismFiguresInformationCallingLuckyRadioI RealizedCorporateEnterpriseAppropriateBullshitCreative PeopleThings I LoveDaily ShowCreative SpaceAir America Author:Lizz Winstead
“The fact that this highly classified information of very, very important people in many cases was so poorly protected demonstrates that cyber security is just one more area where the Obama administration has failed.” PeopleImportantFactsCasesInformationAreasAdministrationBarackJust OneProtectedCybersecurityClassified Information Author:Donald Trump
“Our process inside the United States government has gotten much better at making sure we touch all possible source of information about a refugee. The interview process has gotten more robust, so we've gotten our act together in that respect. The challenge remains, especially with respect to folks coming from Syria, we're unlikely to have anything in our holdings. That is, with people coming from Iraq, the United States government was there for a very long period of time. We had biometrics, we had source information. We're unlikely to have that kind of picture about someone coming from Syria.” PeopleKindLongStatesGovernmentTogetherProcessChallengesUnitedUnited StatesInformationSourcePeriodsRemainsFolksIraqInterviewsSyriaRefugeeUnlikelyRobustState GovernmentLong Periods Of TimeUnited States GovernmentBiometrics Author:James Comey
“I'm concerned with our autonomy. I don't like the idea of people collecting information on me in general, but I particularly don't like it when it's used to sort of exploit your weaknesses or make you lose control in some ways.” PeopleWayIdeasUsedLosesInformationWeaknessConcernedAutonomyExploitsCollectingCollecting Information Author:Tim Wu
“If you have a weakness for furry slippers or something, you might end up with that kind of advertising. It's a very complicated algorithmic decision. There's no one dude who's deciding what ads are going with things, and it's very individualized also. And that's the idea of collecting information is that in theory, you're showing people things that they should want to see or for which they are a good target. So, no, there's no master person.” PeopleIfsWantShouldKindPersonsIdeasEndsMightDecisionInformationMastersTheoryWeaknessComplicatedAdvertisingTargetAdsCollectingSlippersFurryCollecting Information Author:Tim Wu
“What's really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions. Then they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the Internet.” PeopleImportantGovernmentPurposeGivenInformationInternetAccountsInstitutionsEngagedWebsiteEspionageWikileaksHackedRussian Government Author:Hillary Clinton
“In the past, Being able to follow what you're naturally "should" be good at was limited to a very few people in a country like the United States, It was white men who basically had the privileges - or, you name whatever country it is, there's some group of elites who, through various processes of democratization and things like the internet and the information that's available. It's exploding!” PeopleMenShouldCountryStatesAblePastNamesProcessWhiteUnitedUnited StatesGroupsInformationInternetPrivilegeVariousAvailableBe GoodElitesWhite ManExplodingDemocratization Author:Robert Greene
“In the early '60s there was very little reliable information on Tibetan Buddhism. I was living in London and I had joined the Buddhist Society. For the most part, people there were either interested in Theravada or Zen Buddhism. There was almost no one into Tibetan Buddhism at that time.” PeopleLittlesInformationBuddhismLondonBuddhistTibetanZen BuddhismTibetan Buddhism Author:Tenzin Palmo
“On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingFeelsI CanUsedInformationDadToolsMy DadRevolutionarySundaySermonsRecruit Author:Wyclef Jean
“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
“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
“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