#information

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

#basic #been #component #confined #developments

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything. ↗

— Dave Foley

#breaking #down #entertainment #everything #few

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#else #hangs #information #itself #nothing

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #culture #gender #here #idea

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#data #exchange #information #internationally #must

In intelligence work, there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#confidentiality #essential #information #intelligence #limits

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#cases #collect #confidential #convicted #court

The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#became #began #caricature #find #heat

What we are trying to do is to look at all of those resources and say, well, would they be better spent on just advocacy and information, or can we make savings out of that and redirect them into savings. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#better #information #into #just #look

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#developing #devote #entire #information #level