“Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.” PoliticalWealthGenerationsInformationFlowRemainsChinaEnormousDespiteElitesRulingLegitimacyYounger Generation Author:Tom Lantos
“Most people early achieve and later intensify a tendency to process new and disconfirming information so that any original conclusion remains intact. They become people of whom Philip Wylie observed: "You couldn't 't squeeze a dime between what they already know and what they will never learn."” PeopleKnowsProcessAchieveInformationOriginalsRemainsTendenciesConclusionDimesPhilip Author:Charlie Munger
“The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.” StillsBookReasonFormHumanityTechnologyWrittenInformationRemainsStrategyEndureLegacySpiteInformation TechnologyWritten WordInternet Technology Author:Ibrahim Babangida
“The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.” WorldInformationPaintingSourceRemainsVisiblePrincipalAbsent Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery
“The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.” HeartDoubtInformationTruth IsRemainsCarefulCriticalBe CarefulQuestioningFiltersQuintessential Author:Joan Fontcuberta
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.” ThinkingWorldKindMadeStillsIdeasResultsBrainKnownEventsInformationParticularConnectionsEssenceRemainsCellsThese DaysAnalysisEncountersSuggestionsPsychologistSensoryCorrespondingHayekReinforcementVon Hayek Author:Gerald Edelman
“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
“Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.” FormScienceStudyInformationTheorySourceDevelopmentEvolutionAreasBasesRemainsStructureDataInterpretationTheory Of Evolution Author:Everett C. Olson