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• Information is not knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Thought Provoking

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• When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Funny, Humor, Sleep

  The Left Hand of Darkness ch. 3 (1969)

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• The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Army, Entrepreneur, Society

  "Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World". Book by Andrew Breitbart, 2011.

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• Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

  Tim Ferriss

  Men, Data, Excess

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Timothy Ferriss, 2007.

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information.

  Norbert Wiener

  War, Ideas, World

  Norbert Wiener (1954). “The human use of human beings: cybernetics and society”

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• Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Believe, Race, Special

  "The United States". The New York magazine article on November 15, 1971, reprinted in "A View from the Stands", 1986.

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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Learned Person, Educated

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• Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, Decision, Doe

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• These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.

  Paul Simon

  Lasers, Signals, Constant

  Paul Simon (2012). “Lyrics 1964 - 2011”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Art, New York, Thinking

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• More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Country, Phones, Hands

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• Education is this funny thing. You deal for several years with organized information, and then you go out into the world and you never see any of that ever again. There's no more organized information.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Years, Funny Things, World

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• Images are so prevalent that we get most of our information from them. We receive multiple layers of meaning within a very short compact picture, and that is what the right brain does best. Indeed, as our culture becomes more image-based, we're balancing our hemispheres. Through this new re-wiring, we're becoming a much gentler and kinder society.

  Leonard Shlain

  Brain, Hemisphere, Layers

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• What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

  Herbert Simon

  Spiritual, Science, Interesting

  "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World". "Communication, and the Public Interest". Book by Martin Greenberger, pp. 40-41, 1971.

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• Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

  Ian Lowe

  Education, Wisdom, Learning

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• The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Communication, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

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• We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

  John Naisbitt

  Running, Acceptance, Keys

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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.

  Gunter Grass

  World, Volume, Remains

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• Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

  Sally Ride

  People, Secret, Able

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• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

  Oscar Wilde

  Modern, Source, Fortune

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.306, Wordsworth Editions

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• We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.

  Grace Hopper

  People, Needs, Turns

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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• Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Littles, Too Much Information, Too Much

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• The student armed with information will always win the battle.

  Meladee McCarty

  Winning, Battle, Students

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• The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Reason Why, Journalism

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 20, 2015

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