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"I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way."
"Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place."
"Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things."
"I will be sharing additional information I've been hoarding for years about the world of Harry Potter"
"War is 90% information."
"New information makes new and fresh ideas possible."
"Our acquaintances—not our friends—are our greatest source of new ideas and information. the internet lets us exploit the power of these kinds of distant connections with marvellous efficiency."
"All information is good, even when it is bad."
"It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business."
"The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate."
"In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends."
"There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified."
"You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for."
"A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions.""
"Cyberspace is the battlefield of tomorrow... Instead of confronting us head-to-head on the traditional battlefield, adversaries will confront the U.S. at its point of least resistance- our information infrastructure."
"We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires."
"I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist."
"Given any new technology for transmitting information, we seem bound to use it for great quantities of small talk. We are only saved by music from being overwhelmed by nonsense."
"So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it."
"Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music."
