#mati

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

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #available #connection #dwarfs #easier

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#about #best #family #just #money

Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#get #here #logic #mathematical #undergraduate

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#arts #arts education #college #education #had

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit. ↗

— David Krumholtz

#charlie #conventional #him #little #little bit

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#around #doing #dramatic #energy #even

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#available #communications #everything #fast #feel

What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the decisions we make right now really dramatically impact us in the future, and the debt is literally getting out of our control. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#because #borrowing #compromise #concerned #control