"Information is bad for knowledge."
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"There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it."
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"Phones are powerful at providing information."
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"Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in."
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"The biggest reason people don't succeed is because they don't expose themselves to existing information."
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"Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy"
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"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating."
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"We live by information, not by sight."
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"I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes."
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"One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world."
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"Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information."
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"I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live."
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"Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory."
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"We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time."
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"This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy."
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"Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time."
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"People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble."
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"While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information."
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"No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory."
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"Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful."
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