"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive."
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"Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head."
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"The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process."
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"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops."
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"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."
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"Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it."
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"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."
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"Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery."
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"Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet."
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"Information may be free, but an education is priceless."
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"Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy."
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"The Shakespeare Pro App is simply terrific and filled with loads of wonderful information!"
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"Money is information, like bits."
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"I have to make about a million proofs of everything. I don’t know, it’s just a repetition, like a meditation. You come back to something and then you leave it, and then you come back again and you leave it, and each time it changes. And sometimes you have to wait for new information inside yourself to be able to finish something, to find out how it should go."
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"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."
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"The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it."
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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
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"[My father] impressed upon me from the first, that the manner in which the world came into existence was a subject on which nothing was known: that the question, "Who made me?" cannot be answered, because we have no experience or authentic information from which to answer it; and that any answer only throws the difficulty a step further back, since the question immediately presents itself, "Who made God?"
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"We get sucked into the Internet and streaming information, and its time to just unplug and look within."
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"Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control."
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