"I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science."
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"Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly."
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"Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though."
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"I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not have to think about it. Well, there is that phenomenon as well."
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"No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement."
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"The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture."
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"The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem."
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"Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did."
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"I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information."
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"Too much information is rather deadening."
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"The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information"
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"The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness."
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"There is always more information than attention"
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"Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing."
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"Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology."
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"But this wealth of information produced little or no insight."
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"Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it."
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"Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information."
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"There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism."
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"The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message"
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