#information

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better understood #by-product #debate #information #precondition

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#dislike #information #ordinary #ordinary people #people

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#age #alive #aristotle #did #feudalism

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience. ↗

— Jet Li

#audience #chinese #chinese culture #culture #deep

We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#best #certain #certain point #claim #community

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#becoming #central #decisions #guarantee #increasingly

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television. ↗

— David Mamet

#gotten #i #information #television #think

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#been #behind #bothering #closed #decisions

Conversely, beware the man who does nothing but ask you questions about yourself and offers no information about himself. Not only is he keeping you at bay, he is probably not listening to your answers. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#answers #ask #bay #beware #conversely

The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day. ↗

— Marc Maron

#better #day #i #i am #information