Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
If you look at any kind of modern organization and you think, 'What are the foremost tools of power?' You will find that it is information.
There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.
My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.
Stefan Vanderhoof: Too much information.
I believe that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
I live on my phone: I have a bunch of news and informational apps on there.
I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
I was never informed in advance about the start of the war or about foreign political developments.
The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
Every morning brings us news of the globe, and yet we are poor in noteworthy stories. This is because no event comes to us without being already shot through with explanation. In other words, by now almost nothing that happens benefits storytelling; ...
The Oracle handed her a small, leather bound booklet, about as thick as a pamphlet, and said, “You are a teacher, yes?” It was nice of the Oracle to phrase things in the form of a question and let people feel they were imparting information. “Y...
I would lie of course. I lied a lot and with good reason: to protect the truth—safeguard it like wearing fake gems to keep the real ones from getting stolen or cheapened by overuse. I guarded what truths I possessed because information was not a th...
(Dorothy) Dunnett is the master of the invisible, particularly in her later books. Where is this tension coming from? Why is this scene so agonizing? Why is this scene so emotional? Tension and emotion pervade the books, sometimes almost unbearably, ...
Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another's words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting done. It's ...
The History Teacher Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters. And the Stone Age became the Gravel Age, named after the long drive...
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced...
