Information
Definition: Facts provided or learned about something or someone.
Number of Quotes: 11
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that
they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start
seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Douglas Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
The attitude of disrespect that many executives have today for accurate reporting is a business disgrace.
And auditors ... have done little on the positive side. Though auditors should regard the investing public
as their client, they tend to kowtow instead to the managers who choose them and dole out their pay.
Warren Buffett
The thing that best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.
Bill Cosby
At office-managerial level ... you do not read more than the first two sentences of any given
report. You believe that anything which cannot be put into two sentences is not worth attending to.
Penelope Fitzgerald
Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their
concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
Baltasar Gracián
Most of the information we use now is obtained free ... and there is no way of knowing anymore whether the information on which we base our own
information for distribution is true or false. But that doesn't seem to matter; all that matters is that the information comes from a reputable source.
Joseph Heller
It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.
Rush Limbaugh
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress
the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Information is like an oyster. It has its greatest value when it is fresh.
Carl Shapiro
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