"The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them."
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"..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information."
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"I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices."
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"It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having."
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"At a basic level venture capitalists are arbitrageurs: they have access to more information than those with the capital, and access to more capital than those with information, and they profit by exploiting the mismatch."
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"To establish the right price for a stock, the market must have adequate information, but it by no means follows that is the market has this information it will thereupon establish the right price."
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"Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people."
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"Treat objections as requests for further information."
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"When you stiffen, you know that whatever you stiffen about is very important. The stuff is important, the fear itself is information."
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"Information without execution is poverty."
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"Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change."
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"People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live."
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"The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year."
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"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process."
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"There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important."
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"If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything."
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"When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not"
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"When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth."
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"Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events."
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"Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices."
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