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"We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment."
"Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions."
"Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society."
"My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions.. with intrusions of irrelevant information."
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with."
"The more information you have, the better you will be."
"life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything"
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
"I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable."
"Ideas are information taking shape."
"Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition."
"Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven."
"When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate."
"Did you know that lack of information is the number one barrier to wealth?"
"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
"From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE"
"The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized."
"Ordinary people can spread good and bad information about brands faster than marketers."
"Information work is thinking work."
"Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information."
