Information quotations

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◆ Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

- Samuel Johnson99

◆ My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

- Brandon Sanderson99

◆ You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

- Moira J. Moore99

◆ Stop allowing your outdated ideas to hinder your progress. How would your life be different if you became open to new information that can refine, improve, enhance your way of thinking, and empower your way of living?

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I'm online or not, my mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

- Nicholas Carr99

◆ Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

- Criss Jami99

◆ What we find changes who we become.

- Peter Morville99

◆ A pet rock is a serious commitment and too much responsibility for a ten year old to handle on his own

- Kyle Adams99

◆ To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb99

◆ ...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time.

- Orson Scott Card99

◆ In the information-communication civilization of the 21st Century, creativity and mental excellence will become the ethical norm. The world will be too dynamic, complex, and diversified, too cross-linked by the global immediacies of modern (quantum) communication, for stability of thought or dependability of behaviour to be successful.

- Timothy Leary99

◆ With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

- Douglas Coupland99

◆ Finding a song name: Type all the words you know in Google and hope for the best.

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