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“The ‘information’ one receives from within, shows credit [punya] and debit [paap] karmas. All the Knowledge-Vision is present within. Everything can be Known from within but only as long as you do ...”
“the problem of a worker in today’s knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. … In order to learn anything, we need time. And to make time we must use information filters...”
“…and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge”
“Information, long of reach, devastating, and as a side benefit, a substance with no serious legal repercussions, was superior to any other form of power.”
“Most information doesn’t constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that’s a very ...”
“Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere.”
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
“People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle informat...”
“There’s no going back, and there’s no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.”
“{Iola Speaking} "The only time I seem to get you to actually say something is over coffee, so let’s latte.”
“people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.”
“Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later on, as the Common-sense Movement grew, he had to think a lot about that. He had to spread a new ...”
“The point is that newspapers are not there for spreading news but for covering it up. X happens, you have to report it, but it causes embarrassment for too many people, so in the same edition you a...”
“You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of information is a literary act in and of itself. Even when people aren’t reading it.”
“Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock th...”
“Every creature is a living instruction that runs the algorithm of nature.”
“The Plutocracy’s insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame”
