In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.
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DEYTH BANGER We are not living in information age, we are living in the age of information overload.
LALIT BHOJWANI One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of info...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of info...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN They wanted something different in a story. They wanted more information than their competition. The...
PAUL ZIMBRAKOS They can do whatever they want. They can make it appear anything they want, ... I will not be silenc...
JANIS KARPINSKI This case comes at a time when people are starting to recognize that the information they put into t...
LAUREN GELMAN This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and ...
DAN HITCHINGS The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to e...
DAVID PUTTNAM In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift inde...
PATRICK NESS People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet....
JOAN BLADES We will see a volume of pressure on information systems that is unparalleled in history. Businesses ...
JOS DUARTE What we want is to obtain information in real time, to be capable of circulating this information in...
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI They need warning centers, computer modeling, people educated in evaluating information and infrastr...
HAROLD MOFJELD We need to do a better job as an office of knowing what information we have and letting people know ...
ANDY WELCH In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need...
JONATHAN SACKS We're open to others speaking, but we do want to make sure they have the full picture and they have ...
CITY MANAGER RUSS BLACKBURN Information overload (on all levels) is exactly WHY you need an "ignore list". It has never been mor...
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN We're trying to give people the information they need to decide their approach; we're not telling th...
CAROLYN CLANCY People want the most information they can get about their trip. Their No. 1 irritant is traffic. Our...
DAVE MARSH Information is probably the most important thing we can do -- sharing information, communicating wit...
CLAUDIA BLACKBURN That extra year, the kids need it. Their brain hasn't matured. Sometimes I relate this to trying to ...
IRV SLOSBERG There's never going to be a time that people are so healthy that they don't need information or to h...
LAUVE METCALFE Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information,...
BéLA TARR We see this as a platform whereby we can build much better consumer information. This is just one st...
DR. JANET WOODCOCK Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There ar...
JEFF DAVIDSON As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue...
DEAN ORNISH We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools...
ROBERT MUELLER Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look f...
LOIS HOROWITZ in an age of information overload . . . the last thing any of us needs is more information about God...
RACHEL HELD EVANS It?s not a requirement. It?s not a law. All we can do is provide people with information and they ca...
DAVE STONE For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really sch...
JEANNE ALLEN We have found that people sometimes do not understand the relevance of security to their job or the ...
GLENN BRUNETTE Many don't necessarily need all the information a first-time freshman would need in coming to campus...
ALLYSON WILSON Together we're providing people with the information they need to make informed choices during this ...
BRIAN DUFFY Mobile search is rapidly becoming a logical choice for consumers who want to have instant access to ...
JACK WILLIAMS What it implies is people were expecting a strong number and maybe this isn't as strong as they hope...
JEFF HARTE Any time a citizen wants verification of someone requesting information they can call me.
MAGDALIS LOPEZ Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of informat...
RICHARD CARMONA Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.
J.K. ROWLING We need to go about this with a lot more information.
PATTY CRAMER People tend to accept information that confirms their existing beliefs and feelings, and reject info...
RACHEL HILARY BROWN This is a pretty powerful tool. Backup software does not keep historical information like this and o...
DIANNE MCADAM I want to get more specific data. I want to learn how to grab that information and bring it back to ...
LUIS MIRANDA In the Information Age, the first step to sanity is FILTERING. Filter the information: extract for k...
MARC STIEGLER These people who have been around a long time, they tend to have a lot of information stored upstair...
CAROLYN GILL With this new technology, IBM is providing customers and their mobile workers with an instant backup...
AL ZOLLAR We want people to experience as much as they can instead of talking at them, lecturing at them, or r...
ANNETTE BROWN The family said they do not want any information released. They've asked us to honor their request f...
KIM PRUNTY If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It&...
CAROL BARTZ The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and resp...
BOB GRAHAM Hopefully, it's not because they didn't get the information ahead of time, because we notify them mo...
KATHY PATTERSON What is exciting about them is that not only can people enjoy the art, but they can so easily contac...
LAURA NICHOLS We want teens to have accurate information so they can make wise, informed decisions.
DEBRA MARCUS Virtues are common, but the virtuous are very few. This is because ordinarily, people know but do no...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Since people retain more information when they see *and* hear information, adding visual elements to...
JAY JENNINGS When you're online, anybody can keep track of anything you do, ... They can sell it, they can match ...
CHRISTINE VARNEY You shouldn't rely on marketers to give you completely unbiased information about your choices. That...
DAVID LIPSCHUTZ In government, you are pressed by the security agencies. They come to you with very good information...
DAVID BLUNKETT Survey research can contribute to our knowledge base in so many different ways. We want to be a reso...
PATRICK MURRAY We don't think too highly of it, but we do hope that they will take the opportunity of a little bit ...
JUSTIN HAYES They are not suspects, but we would like to talk to them - they do have some information that can be...
JAMES CONN Obviously as time goes on you need to expand the search area, in terms of information. Somebody coul...
DON WOOD They can figure out who they are by where the picture was taken, who they were with, and they start ...
JANELLE FELDMEYER We do this sort of thing a lot -- adding a bit of special information to results for important searc...
DAVID ALPERT People are already struggling and feeling like they need to keep up with the variety of information ...
DAVID GREENFIELD With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don'...
CHAD HURLEY Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United St...
DARRELL ISSA Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
IDRIES SHAH The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about t...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so mu...
GERTRUDE STEIN You really need a shredder if you have information you want to get rid off, but you do not want to t...
JEFFREY ROBINSON The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to ...
STEVE BALLMER The idea is to give maintainers all the information tools and decision-making capabilities that they...
GISELE BENNETT In the future, we need to have one place where people can go for information.
BOB HARKINS It's important to have as much information as possible to help the hospitals identify what you need....
MARIBETH SHANNON You need to understand how to organize and manage the content; how is the information being produced...
GEOFFREY BOCK We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
ROBERT DARNTON The government's attitude, apparently, is that it's entitled to information without justification. L...
ADEN FINE They are certainly demonstrating a hyper-sensitivity to what information they do disclose.
DAVID GARRITY It's just to celebrate literacy more than anything. We want students to know that they can read for ...
JANE HARRISON We are making the prescribing information much more targeted and useful for physicians. The prescrib...
DR. JANET WOODCOCK The volume of information in this case, the time necessary for information to be gathered and transm...
CHRISTINE FERGUSON This agency registers all pesticide products in this state. So yes, we know what is being made avail...
CHRIS KIRBY We would like to release this information to the developer community, because they invested the mone...
KURT BAUMANN Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and inf...
WALT DISNEY If the company has to tell you every time your information is invaded, they are going to want to spe...
GAIL HILLEBRAND The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to ...
STEVE BALLMER They want out (of jail) so bad that they give me all good information.
JACK SANDERS The police were immediately notified. They did not confirm whether the incident did occur. But we do...
LINDA GANN They said they weren't sure if they would be back or not, ... If they feel they need any additional ...
GREG HICKS We can put the information into our space-planning program to make out what they have versus what th...
GREG FOSTER Delays in processing applications, caused by poor computer systems and the inability of frontline st...
EDWARD LEIGH Young people need real sex education that provides them with all the information they need to stay s...
ANGUS MCQUILKEN He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and t...
BAY BUCHANAN I think the chairs of the (Incline Vision) subcommittees are really the anchor people that can effec...
BEA EPSTEIN Too often the message ends at abstinence and students are denied the information they need when they...
DAVID LANDRY People want more and more leisure time, which means the freedom to do what they want to do, not what...
ROBERT FOGEL This was more difficult, ... because with Griffith, there was a story line. This was a piece of nonf...
DAN KLORES We're offering them information so they can make informed choices. If you have information, you can ...
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