#inform

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#also #always #back #constituents #does

Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#accurate information #addressed #away #because #big

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal. ↗

— Jack Welch

#been #being #big #big deal #deal

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#little #nowadays #sad #sad thing #thing

To live effectively is to live with adequate information. ↗

— Norbert Wiener

#effectively #information #live

You don't teach information in a writing workshop. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#teach #workshop #writing #you

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#information #information technology #situation #technology #thought

A file on a hard disk does indeed contain information of the kind that objectively exists. The fact that the bits are discernible instead of being scrambled into mush - the way heat scrambles things - is what makes them bits. But if the bits can potentially mean something to someone, they can only do so if they are experienced. When that happens, a commonality of culture is enacted between the storer and the retriever of the bits. Experience is the only process that can de-alienate information. Information of the kind that purportedly wants to be free is nothing but a shadow of our own minds, and wants nothing on its own. It will not suffer if it doesn't get what it wants. But if you want to make the transition from the old religion, where you hope God will give you an afterlife, to the new religion, where you hope to become immortal by getting uploaded into a computer, then you have to believe information is real and alive. So for you, it will be important to redesign human institutions like art, the economy, and the law to reinforce the perception that information is alive. You demand that the rest of us live in your new conception of a state religion. You need us to deify information to reinforce your faith. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#information #internet #singularity #technology #art

The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium. ↗

— Stephen C. Meyer

#dna #id #information #intelligent-design #science

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

— Keith David Henry

#informational #inspirational #metaphysial #inspirational