#formation

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough. ↗

— Junior Seau

#based #chase #finally #gave #get

When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can. ↗

— John Sexton

#class #exceptional #first #first time #i

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#behind #curtain #democratic #few #generation

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#authorities #give #had #i #information

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it. ↗

— Nate Silver

#good #how #information #intuitive #know

People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them. ↗

— Nate Silver

#happier #implies #information #outlook #people

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information. ↗

— Nate Silver

#good #information #key #limiting #making

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#enclose #equal #equal right #formations #great

Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored. ↗

— John M. Smith

#criteria #how #imposes #information #stored