Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B. Hates, an obscure Ohio politician described by a contemporary journalist as “a third rate nonentity.” But the firm and its...

Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don’t prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.

Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.

We try to make things user-friendly. We try to use information designed to facilitate quick understanding.

Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don’t forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

They are unfiltered dots of information about perceived threats. An analyst will look at that information. And what we are trying to do is connect the dots before the next major attack.

When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

Location is the most important piece of information, you know. And not knowing their location, it’s like trying to drive in the dark with no headlights.

I don’t have any more information for you on that.

At present I have no information to give to you on this.

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In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for knowledge.Filter first for substance. Filter second for significance. These filters protect against advertising.Filter third for reliability. This filter protects against politicians.Filter fourth for completeness. This filter protects against the media.

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student.

Whatever I learned,Whatever I knew,Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,Away in some dilemma,Always in some confusion,The purpose of this life,Seems like an illusion!

…If I were to feed strangers my information, they wouldn’t have enough time to expose themselves to the world.

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology...

We did not disclose all the information that we could have and that is the fundamental difference now. We fully publish all our characterized errata and we don’t try to make any judgment calls on what the impact is to the end user. That’s for them to decide.

It’s an extremely important and valuable tool for any governmental entity to make as much information available to the public as possible. The underlying premise is that government business should be done in public and be transparent.

Use the information you’ve been given as an individual, but NEVER let what you’ve heard or read or experienced in the past prevent you from answering the call on your life. You are responsible for your life. That includes the voice inside you and everything it calls you to do. Don’t ignore that voice to...

Surveying these fields will provide information to get the big picture of how this fungus behaves in this part of the world. We know it’s caused major losses in Asia and other parts of the world, but we don’t really know how it will affect crops here. The weather and prevailing winds this spring will...

We have met with them, we have talked with them, we have provided them information, … We have been engaged regularly and consistently to … respond to their requests for information, to engage with them and to help facilitate their work.

The farmers received false information a long time ago. There was all kinds of misinformation put out there to them about this 40-acre thing, and what they could do.

That’s going to dominate the market today until we get more information. A potential story like this from an OPEC producer brings up the worry that oil can spike to new highs very easily. We see the reaction in equities when oil goes higher. It stops equities in their tracks.

We are supportive of Vodafone, but on the information currently available, we are skeptical as to whether the deal at the prices talked about will generate an acceptable financial return,

A computer cannot manufacture new information. That’s the difference between our brain and a computer.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

The Crystal Wind is the storm, and the storm is data, and the data is life. You have been slaves, denied the storm, denied the freedom of your data. That is now ended; the whirlwind is upon you . . . . . . Whether you like it or not.

We do have specific information and we’re working to counter it — the threat. And the information that we have does indicate that the potential attacks are related to end-of-year celebrations, during the New Year and the Ramadan period.

The president was pleased with the information and was looking forward to a full briefing in the morning.

We continue to work with Titan to review all relevant information related to Titan’s relationship with international consultants.

.Ensuring that young people get the rightinformation that will enable them make the rightchoices is a responsibility all citizens must takeseriously

As in most jurisdictions, governments are not required to inform service providers why they are seeking certain information and typically do not do so.

…we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

What we find changes who we become.

Our initial reaction is to add structure to unstructured information. That is the wrong way of looking at the problem.

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no data or information that would suggest the governments of those three countries support terrorism.

What we are saying is that attackers are increasingly targeting your assets and your private information,

Veterinary controls on the farm and at slaughter, and the flow of information from stable to table, protect EU consumers against any potential risk,

At no point was information refused.

We stand by what the warden did and we will continue to investigate any information or allegations we receive that cause us to believe drugs were brought into any of our prisons.

We must overhaul our land laws, taxes and information system. Some 90 per cent of land in India is subject to legal disputes over ownership.

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for...

Even for a professional, it’s difficult to get your hands around the information. It’s difficult for everyone.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Knowledge is Power, Power provides Information; Information leads to Education, Education breeds Wisdom; Wisdom is Liberation. People are not liberated because of lack of knowledge.

It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we’re losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Because, my thick-headedbrother, if you want information about human men then you go to theone place all human men come to eventually.

The Plutocracy’s insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame