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"If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator."
"Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around."
"I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too."
"I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language."
"It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?"
"That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the same level. Everything has the same value, whether it's Albert Einstein speaking, or yoohoo27@msn.com."
"To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet."
"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
"Those who depend on television as their primary information source are condemned to .... A form of political illiteracy."
"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information."
"I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices."
"A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser."
"Paranoia is just having the right information."
"Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?"
"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information."
"Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power."
"It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge."
"...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147)"
"Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it."
"Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control."
