Absence Of Information Quotes

#1. The absence of information is information.

Orson Scott Card

#2. It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

Orson Scott Card

#3. An absence of information is not the same as information about an absence. We're blind to our blindness.

Steven Johnson

#4. 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.

Douglass North

#5. There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.

Patrick McGrath

#6. Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.

William T. Vollmann

#7. God cleanses and sanctifies us, comes to us with grace and love. God makes us happy, as only children can be happy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#8. I can tell you this. That in the absence of perfect information, I choose to believe in the version of events that would occur in the best of all possible worlds. What that version of events is: that's your decision. That's up to you. I can't decide that for you; I wouldn't try.

Dexter Palmer

#9. The notion of coincidence is merely a special way of perceiving an effect in the absence of detailed information relating to the cause. Yet,

Vadim Zeland

#10. If information provides security, its absence can create doubts, fear or panic.

Diego Torres

#11. The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

Hannah Arendt

#12. Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.

Clayton Christensen

#13. The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and mysticism. Yet

Owen Hopkins

#14. Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

Santosh Kalwar

#15. The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

Russell Lynes

#16. It is a custom often practiced by seafaring people to throw a bottle overboard, with a paper, stating the time and place at which it is done. In the absence of other information as to currents, that afforded by these mute little navigators is of great value.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

#17. Love, simple word with brimming of blood.

Passionate Dreamer

#18. I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Alexander Herzen

#19. If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Joe Queenan

#20. Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#21. Guy was saying, "What the hell is it about you that attracts murder and mayhem?"
"Something in my body language?"
He groaned. "That was bad - even for you.

Josh Lanyon

#22. The multiple failures of top-down design, and the omnipresence of unintended consequences, can be attributed in large part, to the absence of relevant information.

Cass R. Sunstein

#23. You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

Woody Allen

#24. Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.

Sung Kang