Controlling Information Quotes

#1. If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.

Masamune Shirow

#2. Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Ian McEwan

#3. As a means of extracting information during interrogations, torture is notoriously unreliable, but as a means of terrorizing and controlling populations, nothing is quite as effective.

Naomi Klein

#4. Don't get angry or frustrated if those around you choose a different lifestyle than your own. Again, people make different choices, and everyone is on a different journey. Stop judging others, and you will see that others will stop judging you. I had to learn this the hard way.

Marta Tuchowska

#5. We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

Bill Cowher

#6. The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

E.F. Schumacher

#7. It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

Elisha Cuthbert

#8. If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

Jim Abbott

#9. [There's] a number of questionable characters whose goal is clearly not to disseminate information, but to prolong their pathetic reign by controlling people through a highly-organized and continued engineering of ignorance.

Marc Vouillot

#10. There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

James Franco

#11. By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.

Paul Rice

#12. She asked Billy Pilgrim what he was supposed to be, Billy said he didn't know.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

David Halberstam

#14. I should like a parsley sandwich.
To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Edward Gorey