“Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.” WayRealLyingInterestingInformationPretendingWikipedia Author:Nick Kroll
“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.” WayYearsMayLyingInformationLettersCancerCuresAgencyOfficialsSectionsVeteranInstituteDeanCongressmanFdaPhdsCancer CureAmerican Cancer Society Author:Barry Lynes
“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.” LooksMayIdeasLyingUnderstandingRecordsModernInformationKeysDetailsInterpretationClueTheoreticalModern ScienceTrue Understanding Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.” FirstsGovernmentLyingInformationCommunicationMediumsCensorshipAmendmentsInflationViolationFirst AmendmentConveying Author:L. Neil Smith
“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.” PeopleWayMadeBookFactsKidsLyingInterestBrainMoralOpinionInformationTelevisionConstantComplexesDumbStreamsPlotSophisticatedInsecureDilemmaVested InterestsMoral DilemmaInterest In Others Author:A. A. Gill
“We incline to think that God cannot explain His own secrets and that He would like a little information upon certain points Himself. We mortals astonish Him as much as He us. But it is this Being of the matter; there lies the knot with which we choke ourselves. As soon as you say Me, a God, a Nature, so soon you jump off from your stool and hang from the beam. Yes, that word is the hangman. Take God out of the dictionary, and you would have Him in the street.” ThinkingLittlesMatterLyingCertainSecretAtheismStreetsInformationMortalsDictionaryChokeBeamKnotsInclineStoolsHangman Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)
“So it's not a matter of the military lying to the press, but it's the job of the military to deny the press any information that will provide aid and comfort to the enemy.” MatterJobsLyingEnemyMilitaryInformationComfortPressesDenyAids Author:David Hackworth
“A weakness of the random-walk model lies in its assumption of instantaneous adjustment, whereas the information impelling a stock market toward its "intrinsic value" gradually becomes disseminated throughout the market place.” LyingValuesWalksInformationModelsWeaknessAssumptionAdjustmentInstantaneousIntrinsic Value Author:Richard Arnold Epstein