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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

—Edward Abbey

The information we have is not what we want. The information we want is not what we need. The information we need is not available. —Finagle’s New Laws of Information

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

—Warren Bennis

Information is, above all, a principle of economy. The fewer data needed, the better the information. An overload of information leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

—Peter F. Drucker

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decisionmaking, it is a burden, not a benefit.

—William Pollard

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

—Reuben Blades

Chock them so ... 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.

—Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)

On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.

—J. Michael Straczynski

Information is not knowledge.

 —Albert Einstein

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.

—Carl Sagan

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

 —Gertrude Stein

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