Informational Quotes

#1. Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

#2. Books are no longer read but eaten, not made of paper but of some informational substance, fully digestible, sugar-coated.

Stanislaw Lem

#3. Content is the emotional and informational bridge between commerce and consumer.

Jay Baer

#4. The informational density of the inner planets is visibly converging on Avogadro's number of bits per mole, one bit per atom,

Charles Stross

#5. The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology.

Paul Davies

#6. I honestly believe that in this day and age of informational ubiquity and nanosecond change, teamwork remains the one sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped.

Patrick Lencioni

#7. In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.

Kenzo Tange

#8. into her bed purely for informational

Cathryn Fox

#9. People have trouble discarding things that they could still use (functional value), that contain helpful information (informational value), and that have sentimental ties (emotional value). When these things are hard to obtain or replace (rarity), they become even harder to part with.

Marie Kondo

#10. There's little need to invest in the comprehensive instrumentation of the urban fabric with sensors, device controllers or informational displays when people themselves are already equipped with something that can act in all of these roles.

Adam Greenfield

#11. How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

Herbert Schiller

#12. I think it's weird that the news cedes so much ground to Wikipedia. That isn't true in other informational sectors.

Ezra Klein

#13. The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Dick Morris

#14. The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

Terence McKenna

#15. All of my books really do look at that to degrees of difference. Technically, I do enjoy the flashback! But not just for informational material.

Chang-rae Lee

#16. In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

Charles W. Pickering

#17. Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Paul Virilio

#18. I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.

Warren Ellis

#19. Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.

Sergey Brin

#20. I have analyzed the peculiarity of cultural capital, which we should in fact call informational capital to give the notion its full generality, and which itself exists in three forms, embodied, objectified, or institutionalized.

Pierre Bourdieu

#21. Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line
even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

Isaac Asimov

#22. I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

Marco Rubio

#23. To be memorable and to have dramatic impact, informational detail must function actively within the dynamic of a story.

Tim O'Brien

#24. I can see no practical application of molecular biology to human affairs ... DNA is a tangled mass of linear molecules in which the informational content is quite inaccessible.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

#25. It was informational. About how to perform oral sex on men. You know, one man teaching another. It was really fascinating and I've always wondered about the techniques he discussed - ow. Ow! You're squeezing a little hard, Van Holtz."
...
"Well, if you're willing to be my test subject - ack!

Shelly Laurenston

#26. As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

Greg Carlson

#27. You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#28. Storing genes, vulnerable informational systems, in the immediate vicinity of the mitochondrial respiratory chains, which leak destructive free radicals, is equivalent to storing a valuable library in the wooden shack of a registered pyromaniac.

Nick Lane

#29. It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

Terence McKenna

#30. There are three different kinds of scripting: functional, informational and emotional.

Jay Sankey

#31. ...the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#32. Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

Michael Schudson

#33. But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.

Malcolm Gladwell

#34. And in an age when the girls were clearly gaining the upper hand on men in the Battle of the Sexes, men could do with some help from Pet Spirits & Dead Men's Oil.
For unlike Milesians, Malesians could not send girls to be sacrificed to the Gods.[MMT]

Nicholas Chong

#35. And thus, the men won the Battle of the Sexes in Milesian times, so that from the Golden Age of Athens until the Golden Age of Rome, when all citizens were free to speak & vote at the State Assemblies, only women, barbarians & slaves were excluded.[INTRO]

Nicholas Chong

#36. Only the great warriors fall down from their horses; one would not fall who rides a donkey cart.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#37. Never believe all that you hear.
Always verify the original source of information.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children.

Keith David Henry

#39. All of my main characters are based on my friends and people I met during High School and College.

Dana Journey

#40. The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale

#41. There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.

Douglas Preston