Quotes of: Information-age Keyword

Our intellect is like a judge who decides the ‘right’ course of action. There is no dearth of information or knowledge in the world, and the mind is where all this is stored. A simple computer can beat the mind by storing many times more informat...

Practising Spiritual Intelligence: For Innovation, Leadership and Happiness

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Jacques Barzun

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

Marguerite Young

An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.

Richard Flanagan

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

Now if you are told that some piece of information will come as a shock to you, the chances are that you will really feel shocked, even if the information itself isn't of the slightest importance.

Freddy and Simon the Dictator

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

Jack Bowman

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

Information Anxiety 2

Someday this war will be over. A new order of the world will appear in its place. The idea of Socialism will prevail. In the future they’ll remember us as heroes.” Thorkild aka ‘Borge’ The Informer by Steen Langstrup

The Informer

In a relationship there is the information that we need and do not ask for, and the information we have but choose to ignore.

For Love and Money Exploring Sexual & Financial Betrayal in Relationships

One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.

Take Me to the Castle

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

When the restrictions you have do not limit you, this is what we mean by practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But do not give up your practice; continue it, knowing your weakness.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Our effort in our practice should be directed from achievement to non-achievement.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

But as long as you think you are practicing zazen for the sake of something, that is not true practice.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possi...

Dave Obey