Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information."
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Information
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Kara Walker
Artist
"The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action."
David Carson
Graphic Designer
"If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica."
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"War is ninety percent information."
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"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom."
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"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information"
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"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
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"I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."
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"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known."
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"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."
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"Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin."
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"The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
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"How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose."
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"Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing."
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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
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"Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits."
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"How it is we have so much information, but know so little?"
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"All physical systems can be thought of as registering and processing information, and how one wishes to define computation will determine your view of what computation consists of."
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"If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator."
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"Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around."
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"I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too."
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"I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language."
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"It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?"
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