Information

(161 votes)   Information is the currency of democracy.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(92 votes)   Information is recorded in vast interconnecting networks. Each idea or image has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of associations and is connected to numerous other points in the mental network.

Peter Russell

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(88 votes)   Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(86 votes)   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
American Trend Analyst, Futurist, Author

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(76 votes)   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
1908-, American Economist

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(70 votes)   Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(70 votes)   The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools.

Source Unknown

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(67 votes)   With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.

Alfred Glossbrenner

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(66 votes)   There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information.

Everette Dennis

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(65 votes)   Imagine being able to sit at your desk and with a few keystrokes on your computer-being able to access almost any information you need from a storehouse of the world's published knowledge.

Dialog Brochure

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(64 votes)   Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.

Peter D. Moore

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(63 votes)   When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. Le Guin
1929-, American Author

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(62 votes)   If you were designing the sort of information-processing system a brain is, it would be extremely impractical to store memories permanently in their original form. You need mechanisms for transforming and recording them; for ''chunking'' information into categories . Is your memory a phonograph record on which the information is stored in localized grooves to be replayed on demand? Is so, it's a very bizarre record, for the songs are different every time they're played. Human memory is more like the village storyteller; it doesn't passively store facts but weaves them into a good (coherent, plausible) story, which is recreated with each telling.

Judith Hooper Teresi

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(60 votes)   Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level.

Paul G. Thomas

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(60 votes)   The original root of the word ''information'' is the Latin word informare, which means to fashion, shape, or create, to give form to. Information is an idea that has been given a form, such as the spoken or written word. It is a means of representing an image or thought so that it can be communicated from one mind to another rather than worrying about all the information afloat in the world, we must ask ourselves what matters to us, what do we want to know. It's having ideas and learning to deal with issues that is important, not accumulating lots and lots of data.

Theordore Roszak

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