"Be a collector of good ideas, but don't trust your memory. The best collecting place for all of the ideas and information that comes your way is your journal."
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"All meaning alters with acceleration, because all patterns of personal and political interdependence change with any acceleration of information."
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"Just before I left [Cuba], I was about to transfer to the university. I had decided I had had enough experience in work in the manual areas. But then I got word from the United States that I could return...that my party had gathered enough information about the false charges that were against me for me to return to the United States."
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"The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete."
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"There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous."
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"Information upon points of practical politics."
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"Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same."
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"Not as much as I used to, but I use the Internet for everything. I use it for information. Like if I'm planning a trip or something, I'll check out the place I'm going to."
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"There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers."
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"Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online."
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"Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions."
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"3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before."
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"Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated."
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"Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere."
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"My job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action."
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"We should not confuse information with knowledge."
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"All the information I have about myself is from forged documents."
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"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
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"The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire."
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"The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information."
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