“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
Christopher Hitchens Mortality
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Source: 2010s, 2011, Mortality (2012)
“Information is the reply to a question.”
Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 11
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French geographer and cartographer 1918–2010Related quotes
“There are as many types of questions as components in the information.”
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) French geographer and cartographer
Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 10
Robert Silverberg book Lord Valentine's Castle
Book 3, Chapter 8 (p. 301)
Lord Valentine's Castle (1980)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet
" The May Magnificat http://www.bartleby.com/122/18.html", stanza 4 <br class="br">Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Diogenes Laërtius, vi. 54
Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius
M. K. Hobson (1969) American writer
Source: The Hidden Goddess (2011), Chapter 6, “Treachery” (p. 89)
“A guy gave me a job at an information booth, no questions asked.”
Jay London (1966) American comedian
One-liners
“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience”
Jonas Salk (1914–1995) Inventor of polio vaccine
As quoted in Breakthrough : The Saga of Jonas Salk (1966) by Richard Carter
Context: Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience … it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 4, Counting Bits, The scientific measure of information, p. 28
Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays