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"The sense organs, which are limited in scope and ability, randomly gather information. This partial information is arranged into judgments, which are based on previous judgments, which are usually based on someone else's foolish ideas. These false concepts and ideas are then stored in a highly selective memory system."
"... photographs are so loaded with information. They're remarkable. As I said, you get both the tree and the forest."
"And in Improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as "Yes And." The term YES AND: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it."
"Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network."
"Nobody knows really what they're doing and there's two ways to go with that information. One is to be afraid and the other is to be liberated, and I choose to be liberated by it."
"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant"
"We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained."
"For the robust, an error is information."
"Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information, focus and control over the situation. I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened."
"I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously."
"The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift."
"What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact."
"Negative information is that which, immediately upon acquiring, causes the recipient to know less than he did before."
"Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."
"The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information."
"Information costs are reduced by the existence of large numbers of buyers and sellers. Under these conditions, prices embody the same information that would require large search costs by individual buyers and sellers in the absence of an organized market."
"The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged."
"People read fiction for emotion-not information"
"Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information."
"A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point."
