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"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations)
— Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations)
"He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same."
— Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel)
— Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel)
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. "
— Margaret Mead
— Margaret Mead
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"What we find changes who we become."
— Peter Morville
— Peter Morville
"Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever."
— Richard Diaz
— Richard Diaz
"My Favorite Quotes are Imagination is more important than knowledge; a censor is an expert in cutting remarks, against logic there is no armor like ignorance."
— FTC Waveshield
— FTC Waveshield
"Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up."
— Alan Bennett (The Uncommon Reader: A Novella)
— Alan Bennett (The Uncommon Reader: A Novella)
"Jeder ist immer erreichbar. Die ganze Welt beschleunigt sich, alles ist dringend, und wo alles dringend ist, ist nichts mehr dringend, und damit schlittern wir in eine Bedeutungslosigkeit hinein."
— Joseph Weizenbaum
— Joseph Weizenbaum
"Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
— Guy Billout
— Guy Billout
"Why is it like that when something good happens, something else have to go wrong? I think know, according to Isaac Newton's 3rd Law."
— Shehroze Khan Lodhi
— Shehroze Khan Lodhi
"In the long run I certainly hope information is the cure for fanaticism, but I am afraid information is more the cause than the cure."
— Daniel Dennett
— Daniel Dennett
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