"The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work"
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"So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century."
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"I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart."
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"Some information I just keep to myself."
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"You would not call me a marrying man, Watson?" "No, indeed!" "You'll be interested to hear that I'm engaged." "My dear fellow! I congrat-" "To Milverton's housemaid." "My dear Holmes!" "I wanted information, Watson."
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"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering."
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"Before Internet existed, films were my source of real information from the world."
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"The approach and strategies are very similar in that you gather all the information you can and then keep adding to that base of information as things develop. You do whatever the probabilities indicated based on the knowledge that you have at that time, but you are always willing to modify your behaviour or your approach as you get new information. In bridge, you behave in a way that gets the best from your partner. And in business, you behave in the way that gets the best from your managers and your employees."
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"The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself."
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"Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him."
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"There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself."
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"Our medium is meat, but we are made of information."
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"All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere."
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"Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity."
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"Chock them so ... 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."
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"art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe."
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"I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information."
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"The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information."
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"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."
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"I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom."
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