Stephen Jay Gould
Related I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evide... PATRICK SOON-SHIONG ARTHUR MILLER MICHAEL CRICHTON JOHN ANDERSON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS ...there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not ne... KAREN BOHLIN When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting mor... ROBERT MOOG Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES KARL MARX You mean old books?"PHILIP K. DICK In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN JARON LANIER A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON JACOB BRONOWSKI In today's data-rich and litigious society, nothing is more important, or more difficult than safegu... ANDREW HELLER CHRISTOPHER LASCH The list of human errors goes on and on. Sensitive information that someone has left someplace is ju... ERIC MAIWALD Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary cou... MAGNUS LARSSON BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... JEFFREY FRY JARON LANIER As a parent, I wanted more information. SANDY MILLER Now ITAC has achieved its second objective, getting more information about cases of identity theft i... ANNE WALLACE Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA Everything exists as information in a field of infinite possibilities, and it is our Consciousness t... JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really sch... JEANNE ALLEN HERBERT SIMON NORBERT WIENER DR. CARL SAGAN there is more to it than just information. After receiving the information you must know what to do ... MARK HALL An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information. BO BENNETT CARL SAGAN DR. CARL SAGAN EDWARD ABBEY We don't really regard it as stuck (in fifth place) in the sense that pursuit of market share for it... MILES FLINT It's certainly more than a technological activity, although we instrument designers certainly use el... ROBERT MOOG TED TURNER Information about the future is much more valuable and interesting than information about the past. STEPHEN ASBURY For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA JAMES GLEICK While having information is a crucial first step, more information isn´t necessarily better. Take a... GUDJON BERGMANN We don't expect to find anything. It's curiosity more than anything. We thought, 'Why not?' It's suc... DANA WETZEL Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is frei... PHILIP K. DICK JOSEPH PARKER Because the success of the online gaming community is so well-known, the Mint sought to use it as a ... JOYCE HARRIS What is exciting about them is that not only can people enjoy the art, but they can so easily contac... LAURA NICHOLS JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI SAM HARRIS Life is a risk. CARMELO ANTHONY The government views the media as a tool to deliver information about its decisions, like it was in ... ALEXANDER GOLTS JAMES GLEICK There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on... JOAN GANZ COONEY MARY MCCARTHY BILL GATES ABBIE HOFFMAN What's going on in biology, and is really very major, is we're understanding how really spectacular ... JAMES SHAPIRO They were not given as much information as someone not in a chair. JOE WINCZE HERBERT SIMON HERBERT SIMON HERBERT SIMON Communication is the purposeful activity of information exchange between two or more in order to con... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to pa... ERNST W. MAYR MARSHALL MCLUHAN PAT CONROY POPE FRANCIS Everyone is looking at those counterparties right now as deep pockets and is putting together inform... DOUG HIRSCH We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads. VLADE DIVAC MARY MCCARTHY We also wanted to create a community for young visual artists, such as musicians have. The pursuit o... DALE LEWIS As a ministry we do not have much information about the oil deal. We know it happened but we don't h... ASIM JIHAD ADA LOVELACE RUBEN HINOJOSA HENRI POINCARE EDWARD TUFTE The Internet allows a marketer to be much more focused [than in TV advertising], even when advertisi... DAVID L. STERN MARSHALL MCLUHAN Sometimes less is more - less information, but highlighting it in a better way, sometimes better con... DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB L. RON HUBBARD L. RON HUBBARD It is a matter of urgency. It is an outbreak of potential international importance. We're looking fo... JULIE HALL When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt ... ADAM COHEN DAVID BYRNE One of things we know is that farmers learn from each other, ... This helps them share information a... HOWARD SCHWARTZ NAVEEN JAIN Careful evaluation of information that is portrayed as fact is critical. STEVEN REDHEAD Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no mor... HENRI POINCAR Less is more, with creativity, and without creativity, less is less. RONALD ANTON It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talkin... DAVE OBEY ROBIN MORGAN The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information. SERGE SCHMEMANN The objective of the NIT is to restore its heritage as a meaningful postseason tournament. GREG SHAHEEN
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It is a lie. 
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. 
Information assurance, as it's practiced today, is not a science. It remains largely ad hoc, 
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ... 
Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Cat... 
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts an... 
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Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting,... 
What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a w... 
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of ... 
Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also ... 
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single lar... 
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of i... 
I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is. 
The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, ... 
This is only one source of information . . . but there is no other information out there that is as ... 
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of t... 
3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on t... 
Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information. 
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert. 
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. 
The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and ... 
As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take th... 
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie... 
Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool. 
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of info... 
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. 
A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists. 
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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as ... 
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I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. 
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