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"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the
knowledge we have lost in information?" |
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-- T. S. Eliot (1885-1968), American-born British poet |
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| "Information is the currency
of democracy." |
| -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
3rd US President |
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| "As a rule, he or she who has the most
information will have the greatest success in life." |
| -- Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
(1804-81), [First Earl of Beaconsfield] British politician |
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| "The secret of living a life of excellence
is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's
a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that
will set us free." |
| -- Charles R. Swindoll |
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| "Knowledge is of two kinds. We
know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on
it." |
| -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-84),
British writer, lexicographer |
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| "Information is the oxygen of
the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts
across the electrified borders." |
| -- Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.
1911), 40th US President |
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| "As
books in the last centuries have brought us into the information
age, so will computers-- with their databases, applications, and
electronic networking-- bring us in the centuries ahead to the
information moment, an enlarged present moment containing the past
and much of the future." |
| -- Alfred Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "We're drowning in information
and starving for knowledge." |
| -- Rutherford D. Rogers, Librarian |
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| "All of the books in the world
contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large
American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." |
| -- Carl Sagan (b. 1934),
American astronomer |
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| "Everybody gets so much
information all day long that they lose their common sense." |
| -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946),
American writer of experimental novels, essays, plays |
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| "In a
purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in
information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great
work of art." |
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-- Edward O. Wilson |
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| "Judgment is more than skill. It sets
forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable
factual information." |
| -- Kingman Brewster, Jr. (1919-88), American
diplomat |
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| "Imagine
a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can
not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live." |
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-- Peter Cochrane |
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| "I
find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking
up something and finding something else on the way." |
| -- Franklin P. Adams (1881
- 1960), American journalist |
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| "Ants are so much like human
beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as
livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and
confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange
information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." |
| -- Lewis Thomas |
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| "Knowledge
is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find
information on it." |
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-- Samuel Johnson |
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| "Information
is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is
not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best." |
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-- Frank Zappa |
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| "Opinion is that exercise of the human
will which helps us to make a decision without information." |
| -- John Erskine |
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| "Life happens too fast for you ever to
think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they
insist on amassing information." |
| -- Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist |
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| "None of us here in Washington
knows all or even half of the answers … If you love your country, don't
depend on handouts from Washington for your information. If you cherish
your freedom, don't leave it all up to big government." |
| -- Barry Morris Goldwater (b.
1909), US Senator |
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| "When action grows unprofitable, gather
information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep." |
| -- Ursula K. LeGuin (b. 1929), US author |
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| "We're drowning in information and
starving for knowledge." |
| -- Rutherford D. Rogers, American librarian |
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| "A decision is the action an executive
must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does
not suggest itself." |
| -- Arthur W. Radford, American admiral |
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| "The bigger the information media, the
less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness." |
| -- Eric Sevareid |
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| "Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information
or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a
book. It expires with each passing generation." |
| -- Sid Taylor |
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| "Ants are so much like human beings as to
be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock,
launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse
enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information
ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television." |
| -- Lewis Thomas |
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| "What makes a good follower? The single
most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the
truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly
dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the
leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and
leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination." |
| -- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925), American writer,
educator |
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