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The joyous clamor in my mind drowned out the strange sound outside the car: a humming noise that was gathering speed and growing louder, a roar that was not the waves curling up the beach.
— Padma Venkatraman, Climbing the Stairs
Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers.Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died. Thirty-one. Not old.Not young.But a viable die-able age.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
There were these things and the flames ate these things, and since fire doesn't distinguish between the word of God and the word of the Soviet Communications Registry Bureau, both Qur'an and telephone directory returned to His mouth in the same inhalation of smoke.
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.
— Ronald Velesovsky
Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
— Bailey Vincent, The Details of How We Lived
Once he got bitten, and they all wept bitterly, expecting to see a spectacular death-agony; but he just went off into the bush and probably ate something, for he came back in a few days quite cock-a-hoop and as ready to eat snakes as ever.
— Richard Hughes
A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
Insofar as craft and poetics in a poem have a politics, I wanted to avoid that brittle enjambed-prose-sentence-lyric verse, where you have standard sentences snapped off and scattered decoratively across the page (which I might go out on a limb and say was characteristic of some leftist poets, Beat poets, street poets and populist poets of the 70s and 80s—all of whom I basically view as comrades, I should probably say, to this day) and on the other hand I also wanted my poetics to operate differently than those more right-wing academics—in practice—even if in their poems or statements they proclaim public leftist views or ideas—they remain academic poets, operating in elite university-supported circles, institutionalized and reading before institutional audiences, awarding grants and awards to each other, sitting on each other’s grants panels, awards and tenure committees, as Philip Levine admitted in an interview in Don’t Ask, 'giving prizes to friends.
— Sesshu Foster
Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.
— Chris   Howard, Rootless
In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old days, I read more poetry than prose, but now it is in prose where you find things being put together well, where there is great ambition, and equal talent. Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off.
— William H. Gass
And I howled at that swarm and the crops and the sky, and the stars should have quit because there weren't no reason to be shining.
— Chris   Howard
why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.
— Bob Dylan
I felt naked beneath the wildness of her eyes. I felt alive. Unknown. And I knew then that the world contained so many things I would never understand.
— Chris   Howard, Rootless
I wouldn't give ten gallons of my own piss for clear sentence that gives the sense of a tree as a tree, when I revel in the nonsense of its being my own Grandfather, a letter from yesterday, or a masturbating fist.
— David Joseph Cribbin, Father Crow and Other Poems
Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You couldn't make up something that looked so right.
— Chris   Howard, Rootless
You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get.
— Chris   Howard, Rootless
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
— Constance Hale
I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they, music and prose, are connected to a lengthy and mutually beneficial extent and that they have been of centuries or millenniums.
— Nicholas Trandahl
Tell all the truth but tell it slant.
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
— Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
— George Orwell, Books v. Cigarettes
Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a look of wariness, which could change when he felt relaxed or happy, which was not often in these difficult days, into a smile of amused friendliness and pleasure which aroused feelings of warmth, and something more, in many women.
— A.S. Byatt, Possession
I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.
— Chris   Howard, Rootless
Later when they would mention, they would say, and everyone would know, but not nearly as well as they meant.
— Mikl Paul, Dandelions That have Held your Breath
The punter sweated on top of Marina, his lips all over her young body, his tongue slipping out from rows of crooked teeth, pushing hungrily from between his shrivelled lips like a clam from a shell, a bottom feeder searching for salty nutrition.
— Tom Conrad
In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care.[DEA Administrative Law Judge - 1988]
— Francis Young
Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong and steady. No indication that he had been sneaking around.
— Maria V. Snyder, Ice Study
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
— Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.
— Holly Lisle, The Silver Door
A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her pocket and brought out a long, slender piece of metal, glittering all along one edge. "However a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble. Generally speaking, it's easier to appear harmless. It's less trouble all around.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.
— Ann M. Martin, A Corner of the Universe
Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian’s mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.
— Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours."Ranette: "Your mansion isn't safe?"Wax: "My butler failed to poison me, then tried to shoot me, then set off an explosive in my study"Ranette: "Huh.... You need to screen these people better, Wax.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Alloy of Law
Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb? Mother do you think they'll like this song? Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?Mother should I build the wall?Mother should I run for president?Mother should I trust the government?Mother will they put me in the firing line?Mother am I really dying?Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.Mother's gonna put all her fears into you.Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,Of course mama'll help to build the wall.Mother do you think she's good enough -- to me?Mother do you think she's dangerous -- to me?Mother will she tear your little boy apart?Mother will she break my heart?Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.Mama's gonna wait up until you get in.Mama will always find out where you've been.Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,You'll always be baby to me.Mother, did it need to be so high?
— Roger Waters, The Wall
Safety tip. When you see smoke run, never wait for fire.
— Danielle Sibarium, For Always
Stay the night, said the officer, patting a confiscated couch. I'll keep my hands off you. I promise.You have more than hands, said Elie.My feet are safe, too, said the officer. He pointed to a hole in his boots, and they laughed.
— Thaisa Frank, Heidegger's Glasses
Taking Mum's hand, I whispered "Are we really safe, here?
— Alwyn Evans, Walk in My Shoes
When what we believe we’ve mastered is no longer predictable we’re not fine. The world suddenly is a very scary place. It loses its charm.
— Patricia Cornwell, Dust
How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!
— William Dean Howells, A Sleep and a Forgetting
Risk is the increased consequence of failure.
— Michael Bane, Trail Safe: Averting Threatening Human Behavior in the Outdoors
I delve into the mysterious and counterintuitive world of helmets and high-visibility gear later in the book. But it's worth immediately noting this: while they're not inherently bad, they're less a safety device for cycling than a symptom of a road network where no cyclist can truly feel safe.
— Peter Walker, How Cycling Can Save the World
The most basic bit of advice given to women who have to walk alone at night is, ‘Look alert. Be aware of your surroundings and walk briskly. You will be safer if you know where you are going, and if anyone who observes you senses that.’ The stalking, predatory animal cuts the weakest from the pack, and then kills at his leisure.
— Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a presumption that anyone entering this room was intelligent enough to keep away from hot things, sharp things, and things carrying large stores of momentum.
— Max Barry, Machine Man
Put your glasses on mate ….. Come down from there, you’re gonna kill yourself …. Well, what does your Method Statement say? …. Right, let’s get you re-inducted. You need a reminder of site rules ….. Where are your outriggers, mate? ….. Put your glasses on ….. Put your glasses on …. Put your glasses on …. Oh, they steam up, do they? I’ve never heard that one before …. Where’s your mask? If you breathe this shit in you’re going to kill yourself. Silicosis is incurable ….. Right STOP! Do not reverse another inch without a banksman ….. Don’t put your glasses on just because you see me walk around the corner. They won’t protect MY eyes …. Hook yourself on, what’s the matter with you? Are all you scaffolders superhuman or something? ….. Put your glasses on ….. Oi! What stops me walking right in there? Where’s your barriers and signage? ….. Oi! I’m getting showered in fucking sparks here. And so is that can of petrol ….. Put your glasses on …. Where’s the flashback arrestor on this bottle of propane? ….. Hey, pal, stop welding until you’ve sheeted up ….. What are you doing climbing up there? Where’s your supervisor? What did he say about access in this morning’s Safe Start briefing? Nothing? Right, he can sit through another induction tomorrow ….. Where are the retaining pins to the joint clamps in this concrete pump line? SEAMUS! Fucking deal with this, will you? ….Put your glasses on …. Hey! Hey! Come here! Why have you got a nail instead of an ‘R’ clip to the quick-hitch system on your excavator bucket? NO! IT WON’T DO! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? If that bucket falls on someone they’re not going to get up again. And you trust a fucking nail to hold it in position! Take this machine out of service immediately until you’ve got the proper ‘R’ clip! ….. Put your glasses on …. Where’s the edge protection. Who removed the edge protection? Right, let me phone for a scaffolder ….. Put your glasses on ….. Oi! Get out from under there! Never, ever stand underneath a suspended load. Even if all the equipment’s been inspected, which it obviously has, you can never trust the crane driver. He can be taken ill suddenly ….. Come here, mate, let’s have a little chat. Why are you working on Fall Arrest? You’re supposed to be working on Fall Restraint (FR ‘restrains’ you going near the perimeter edge of the building, FA ‘arrests’ your fall if, well, if you fall. If you’re hanging off a building we’ve got less than ten minutes to reach you before you start going into toxic shock brought on by suspension trauma. In other words, we need a Rescue Plan, which is why we’d prefer people work on Fall Restraint)
— Karl Wiggins, Dogshit Saved My Life
Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.
— Tania Aebi, I've Been Around
Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.
— Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
Our “protective bubbles”—our houses, our cars, our friends, our online identities—might make us feel secure, but most of it’s just an illusion. It’s easy to get hurt, just like it’s easy to hurt other people.
— Paula Stokes, This is How it Happened
If either one of you is ever in a situation you’re not entirely comfortable with—call me. I don’t care what time it is. I don’t care who is there or what is going on. You call me and I will come get you.
— Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species
I'm safer with the Tailor and Pretty Will and every thief and cutthroat in the bend than I am with Miss Josephine Montfort of Gramecy Park.
— Jennifer Donnelly, These Shallow Graves
He longed for a world where safe places for the weak and vulnerable were common, but that was not this world. Not right now.
— S.D.   Smith, Ember Falls
The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.
— Anthony Liccione
When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat
— bell hooks
Planning, awareness, and communication are essential in conducting all of our activities with a reasonable level of safety. Accidents are novelty gone bad.
— R.A.Delmonico
I remembered some lines from the papers: our nuclear stations are absolutely safe, we could build one on Red Square, they're safer than samovars. They're like stars and we'll "light" the whole earth with them.
— Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
The FDA just ordered them off the market. The glaze is supposed to be poison—provided you drink at least forty cups of tea out of one of them every day of your life for twenty years.
— Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
Recognize and beware of the snare.
— Clifford Cohen
Easy, dushka," he mumured. "You're safe.
— Apryl Baker, Touch Me Not
Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure.Jan Jansen
— Jan Jansen
Whenever he can, Werner records what the partisans say on magnetic tape. Everybody, he is learning, likes to hear themselves talk. Hubris, like the oldest stories. They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
I don't have to be safe to feel safe, I always feel safe at my core.
— Jay Woodman
I smile to catch the piranhas from swimming out of my mouth.
— Evan Mariah Pettit
Doesn't it give you a supernatural and ultimate feeling of assurance, comfort, safety and security to know that wherever you go God is there with you? He is your Peace, Shield and Strength! He loves you! His love is eternal!
— Pazaria Smith
During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia
— Steven Magee
When Iran starts to regulate USA nuclear facilities, it will be a step in the right direction for the safety and security of 300 million people.
— Steven Magee
Provide a safe place for people to be their 100% self, this world is already guarded and fearful, trained to keep walls up and throw away the keys. A harden heart is no pure reality and for too long, we have all stood to allow it; so instead of excusing mimisfortune, let's bathe eachother in compassion and grow beyond what we've been taught
— Nikki Rowe, Once a Girl, Now a Woman
Do you know why we’re all happy here, monsieur? Because it’s the last house on the road.
— Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder
That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.
— Carissa Kohne
Freedom isn't a static point. It's spectrum from absolute to none at all, and is usually inversely proportional to safety.
— M.L. Wulff
Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfastsin the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that willcome to find us soon, if we don’t find it first.
— Veronica Roth, Insurgent
One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful flowers, one unlike all the others! She pulled, stooped to pull harder-when, sprung out of the earthon his glittering terriblecarriage, he claimed his due.It is finished. No one had heard her.No one! She had strayed from the herd. (Remember: go straight to school.This is important, stop fooling around!Don't answer to strangers. Stickwith your playmates. Keep your eyes down.)This is how easily the pitopens. This is how one foot sinks into the ground.
There is something comforting about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
— Anonymous
Where everyone knows your name, and a safe place to raise a family.
— Terri Haynes Roach, A Special Gift
Both wet to the bone, exhausted, and one unconscious, Kedean thought, all in all, they were faring rather well for two unarmed men who'd only just an hour ago escaped a fleet of fairy pirates into frigid water in unknown territory.
— Anihyr Moonstar, The Coquette and the Thane
He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.
— Shannon L. Alder
Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
My book, Ambassador Book one: how to take on the world and win will help to illuminate many of the obstacles that we all must face in order to succeed. You are invited on a journey of personal discovery.
— Ken  Taylor, Ambassador Book One: How to Take on the World and Win
Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
— Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
It's proper netiquette to power on your smartphone (mobile) to go through metal detectors. NetworkEtiquette.net
— David Chiles
Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this.
— Rita Zoey Chin, Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir
She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.
— Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?
— Naomi Wolf, Vagina: A New Biography
If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
You must live in a place where you can walk safely all alone even after midnights!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Gracie, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and everything is going to be all right.Willem
— Lisa C. Temple
Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.
— S.A.R.K.
I never thought I'd hear myself say it, but safety first!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.
— Neal Stephenson, Zodiac
Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.
— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms
Peri went to the window, gesturing out at the dragons, perched and flying, everywhere. "Safe, true, but how boring! How confining! How sad! How could that compare with this? And what is safe? You were not safe on your little farm. War came to you and took all your safety away! If I am to be in this world, I want more than to be a hound upon the game board, tucked away in a corner until the jackals come and sweep all away!
— Mercedes Lackey, Aerie
For someone who needs refuge, a key is provided.
— Anna Keesey, Little Century
Love is the perfect safety, or the perfect weapon.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family.
— Crawford Greenwalt
Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.
— Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-Hard Life
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
What we find changes who we become.
— Peter Morville
In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure.
— Daniel C. Dennett
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
— Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
To bankrupt a fool, give him information.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own
— Kyle Adams, Dirty Zero
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
— Gertrude Stein, Selected Operas and Plays
There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.
— Andrew Kantor
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
— Guy Billout
When you close to me, my heart has created a vibration of the precise "Carrier frequency" to send all deep information about me to you
— cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=
We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we can apply intelligence. We propagate structure (not just we humans but we who are alive). We disturb the tendency toward equilibrium. It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as “superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways - miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe.
— James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount of information comes from the amount by which something reduces uncertainty...The higher the [information] entropy, the more information there is. It turns out to be a value capable of measuring a startling array of things- from the flip of a coin to a telephone call, to a Joyce novel, to a first date, to last words, to a Turing test...Entropy suggests that we gain the most insight on a question when we take it to the friend, colleague, or mentor of whose reaction and response we're least certain. And it suggests, perhaps, reversing the equation, that if we want to gain the most insight into a person, we should ask the question of qhose answer we're least certain... Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish.
— Brian Christian, The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
— James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
[W]hen a message is squeezed through a twenty-second news spot, so much can be lost that what is left will fail to move anyone enough to make them turn off the set and actually do something. Meanwhile, the viewers will believe that they have learned everything they need to know on that subject and will be bored the next time they hear it.
— Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Religious ceremonies are of paramount importance in Bali ( an island, don't forget, with seven unpredictable volcanoes on it-you would pray, too).
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Keep in mind that when we limit our exposure to information, or when information itself is scarce, our picture of reality suffers. We become oblivious to both opportunities and hazards. Trends become invisible. History disappears. It's really just two sides of the same coin: the first commitment is as much a commitment to gathering information, from as many sources and in as much volume as can constructively be used, as it is a commitment to facing the facts.
— John Salka, First In, Last Out: Leadership Lessons from the New York Fire Department
I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information.""And?""The most valuable?""People with information," I suggested.
— Len Deighton, The Ipcress File
We either need an overwhelming force advantage, or we need more information.""Reinforcements cut into our bounty, remember?""It's unanimous. We need more information.
— Howard Tayler, The Blackness Between
{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let’s latte.
— Craig    Robertson, Anon Time
people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
— C.J. Cherryh, Chanur's Legacy
Careful evaluation of information that is portrayed as fact is critical.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail
An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place.
— R.A.Delmonico
The integration of information and vulnerabilities move together.
— R.A.Delmonico
Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference.
— R.A.Delmonico
Information is a difference that makes a difference. Truth is information that doesn't change and self referential noise is a difference that doesn't make a difference.
— R.A.Delmonico
As the complexity in any system increases, the ability to form a correct understanding decreases exponentially.
— R.A.Delmonico
Remember this: of all the commodities men trade in, information is the most valuable by far.
— Raymond E. Feist, Rise of a Merchant Prince
The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists have finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that information forms the very core of existence.
— James Gleick
Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later on, as the Common-sense Movement grew, he had to think a lot about that. He had to spread a new system of ideas throughout the world, and journalism would neither instruct nor inform nor lend itself consistently to any sustained propaganda.
— H.G. Wells, The Holy Terror
The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you add some shock headlines - mother kills four children, savings at risk of going up in smoke, letter from Garibaldi insulting his lieutenant Nino Bixio discovered, etc. - so news drowns in a great sea of information.
— Umberto Eco, Numero zero
Life is about information, not about something else who knows the most he always wins.
— Deyth Banger
Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.
— Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Information is information, not matter or energy.
— Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Information is the coin of war.
— Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
The hardest bit of information to extract is the first piece.
— Robert Ferrigno, Prayers for the Assassin
The most common definition of [the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge.This definition remained fairly constant until the years immediately following World War II, when it came in vogue to use 'information' as a technological term to define anything that was sent over an electric or mechanical channel. 'Information' became part of the vocabulary of the science of messages. And, suddenly, the appellation could be applied to something that didn't necessarily have to inform. This definition was extrapolated to general usage as something told or communicated, whether or not it made sense to the receiver. Now, the freedom engendered by such an amorphous definition has, as you might expect, encouraged its liberal deployment. It has become the single most important word of our decade, the suspense of our lives and our work.
— Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety
The most common definition [of the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge.This definition remained fairly constant until the years immediately following World War II, when it came in vogue to use 'information' as a technological term to define anything that was sent over an electric or mechanical channel. 'Information' became part of the vocabulary of the science of messages. And, suddenly, the appellation could be applied to something that didn't necessarily have to inform. This definition was extrapolated to general usage as something told or communicated, whether or not it made sense to the receiver. Now, the freedom engendered by such an amorphous definition has, as you might expect, encouraged its liberal deployment. It has become the single most important word of our decade, the suspense of our lives and our work.
— Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety
What we actually know firsthand is minuscule: the feel of the spring air on our skin, our own private daydreams and phobias. Outside of these tiny warrens of private knowledge, we have to depend on what others say.
— Christopher L. Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Imagine a weary sailor coming home to port in the midst of a brutal storm. Along the horizon he sees the burning lights of dozens of lighthouses. And yet he knows from experience that some are so old they've receded miles inland as the shore has grown. Others are simply fakes, put out by sadists and rivals. To be a citizen in these strange times is to perpetually find oneself in that poor sailor's perilous state. We know that danger lurks in the darkness, but we don't know if we have the means to avoid it.
— Christopher L. Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Time isn't just a quantity. It's information.
— Khalid Masood
You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.
— Kenneth Goldsmith
Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.
— Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.
— Stephen Few
There is only one limitation to our progress and that is our lack of information.
— Sunday Adelaja
...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
IT IS A KNOWING. YOU BEHAVE LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF AN INFORMATION YOU HAVE. I WILL BEHAVE LIKE YOU IF I HAD THAT INFORMATION.In the beginning was the INFORMATION, and the INFORMATION was with God, and the INFORMATION was God.The same was in the beginning with God.All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.In him was life; and the life was the light of men.And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
— Mary Tornyenyor( From Sam)
The next question is how? How does news find us? What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost always subject to an algorithm. The most powerful thing in your world now is an algorithm about which you know nothing about.
— Kelly McBride
The really strange thing about this is that it was one of the Fog Facts.That is, it was not a secret. It was known. But it was not known. That is, if you asked a knowledgeable journalist, or political analyst, or a historian, they knew about it. If you yourself went and checked the record, you could find it out. But if you asked the man in the street if President Scott, who loved to have his picture taken among the troops and driving armored vehicles and aboard naval vessels, if you asked if Scott had found a way to evade service in Vietnam, they wouldn't have a clue, and, unless they were anti-Scott already, they wouldn't believe it.In the information age there is so much information that sorting and focus and giving the appropriate weight to anything have become incredibly difficult. Then some fact, or event, or factoid mysteriously captures the world's attention and there's a media frenzy. Like Clinton and Lewinsky. Like O. J. Simpson. And everybody in the world knows everything about it. On the flip side are the Fog Facts, important things that nobody seems able to focus on any more than the can focus on a single droplet in the mist. They are known, but not known.
— Larry Beinhart, The Librarian
For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.
— Alastair Reynolds, Revelation Space
Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible 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 to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
They tell me we're living in an information age, but none of it seems to be the information I need or brings me closer to what I want to know. In fact (I'm becoming more and more convinced) all this electronic wizardry only adds to our confusion, delivering inside scoops and verdicts about events that have hardly begun: a torrent of chatter moving at the speed of light, making it nearly impossible for any of the important things to be heard
— Matthew Flaming, The Kingdom of Ohio
Processed data is information.Processed information is knowledgeProcessed knowledge is Wisdom.
— Ankala V Subbarao
Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We know that children with autism like order, that they are often very visual and that they can be quite literal. They deserve beautiful resources and symbols that make sense. If a picture does not explain visually, it is pointless and the child will stop looking to the pictures for information.
— Adele Devine, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We just start putting our ideas out there, yet how do we actually attack contemporary problems? We do what some of the most successful American businesses do. We outsource and collaborate
— Baratunde R. Thurston
Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.
— Joey Lawsin, Creation by Law
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.
— Dave Eggers, The Circle
Here's the bottom line: The secret world of intelligence--at least in the United States of America--represents everything wrong with the government, the industrial era, our financial-economic system, and our ethics.
— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Explain to me again why we’re at a whorehouse?”Gwenvael sighed around his ale. “Because, my thick-headedbrother, if you want information about human men then you go to theone place all human men come to eventually.
— G.A. Aiken, About a Dragon
The Plutocracy’s insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame
— Dean Cavanagh
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.
— David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
I am not alone in the conviction that real, lasting national security can best be obtained through complete transparency of government, business, and other facets of society, and this includes open access to all of the many available types of information.
— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
I realized in 1988 that my life as a spy specializing in secrets was not only unproductive, it was in sharp opposition to what we actually need: full access to true information, and consequently, the ability to create Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).
— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
Liberation technology creates wealth, and open-source technology creates wealth. In both instances the 'center of gravity' for dramatic change toward resilience and sustainability is the human brain mass of five billion poor--the one billion rich have failed to 'scale.' The human brain is the one unlimited resource we have on Earth.
— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
I will say that again in a different way: the persistent unethical and ignorant emphasis on secrecy and on making decisions for partisan advantage or to pay off campaign contributors and select insiders is not sustainable. We the People have an opportunity to embrace this manifesto of Open-Source Everything and bury 'rule of secrecy.' This is why I am optimistic about the future.
— Robert David Steele, The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust
...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
— William Badke
Hunter-gathers, by nature, store information for use, understanding that there may be a time when information is scarce.
— Brian C. O'Connor, Jud H. Copeland, Jodi L. Kearns
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
— Julian Assange
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.
— James Gleick
We all would like to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the problem of a worker in today's knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. The same holds for professionals: just think of a physician or an executive, constantly bombarded by information that is at best irrelevant. In order to learn anything we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little.
— Mario Bunge, Philosophy in Crisis: The Need for Reconstruction
Information can be such a double-edged sword.
— Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Love
I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.
— David Brooks
While information is the oxygen of the modern age, disinformation is the carbon monoxide that can poison generations.
— Newton Lee, Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness
When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.
— Richard Diaz
Warning:This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art that was once called reading. It is a simple adjustment and there will be no negative or harmful effects from this process.What you are doing: "Reading" ExplainedEach sheet is indelibly printed with information and the sheets are visually scanned from left to right, and from top to bottom.This scanned information is passed through the visual cortex directly into the brain, where it can then be accessed just like any other data.
— Mike A. Lancaster
...If I were to feed strangers my information, they wouldn't have enough time to expose themselves to the world.
— Sarah Mercado
Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.
— Jean-Claude Carrière, Violence & Compassion His Holiness The Dalai Lama
We know that we are continually subjected to a huge range of sensory inputs and internal experiences of sensations and thoughts. In fact, almost anything existing in our universe, that can come into human and other animals' purview, can be experienced as information - a bird call, our friend's 'hello,' the rock we trip over, the intuition we have about the honesty of someone we are talking to, a book we read.
— Marcia J. Bates
Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
— Stephen King, The Shining
But perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.
— Sarah J. Maas, Queen of Shadows
Because all the monsters have been let out of their cages tonight, no matter what court they belong to. So I may roam wherever I wish until the dawn.
— Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses