Quotes of: Personal-information Keyword

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.

Joseph Stiglitz

Writers themselves benefit from all helpful information about their task and methods. Readers, in turn, can have both their understanding and appreciation of literature enhanced by information about the writer's work.

Leland Ryken

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

Lisa Randall

But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach...

Infinite Jest

Pardon me, but we did not have the time to exchange that kind of personal information," Magnus said. "I could not have known! Moreover, I wish to assure both of you that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys." he paused and winked. "I...

Cassandra Clare

Detective Kelly: We were just informed by the U.S. Marshal's Office that Doctor Richard Kimble is alive and well and living in the city of Chicago. Now you all know in what high regard I hold the scumbag. So I am personally donating a bottle of twelv...

The Fugitive

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that t...

The Adoration of Jenna Fox

We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information a...

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

Twitter is more than just a collection of fleeting observations about everyday life. Twitter can connect people to events, information and each other in ways that have never been experienced before.

Twitter In 30 Minutes: How to connect with interesting people, write great tweets, and find information that's relevant to you.

What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is , not . It does everything pos...

Neil Postman

While there are certainly informational spillovers as ideas move from person to person, it is hard to see why in most instances they are not priced. Although it is possible to imagine examples such as the wheelbarrow where an idea cannot be used with...

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Problems created by ignorance are always solved by information. The best information is an inspiration that brings an end to the belief “it’s impossible”!

Daily Drive 365

An open internet is an open platform for debating opposing views. It allows unpopular voices to be heard.

Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

John Perry Barlow

In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.

Around The World in 80 Brands

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

What if the saboteurs come while he’s standing there pissing on our truck?” “Then he’s in trouble.” Conversation between two Gestapo Officers The Informer by Steen Langstrup

The Informer

That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.” Verner aka ‘Jens’ in the novel 'the Informer' by Steen Langstrup

The Informer

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

The Left Hand of Darkness

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families