“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” — Gertrude Stein, “Reflection on the Atomic Bomb,” Yale Poetry Review (December 1947)
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“The ultimate insanity is to so organize society that power, wealth, and information are concentrated in the hands of so few people that they have the power, for whatever reason, to put to death our species and the living earth as well. But so we have.” — Dee Hock, Autobiography of a Restless Mind
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“The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway.” — Brian Eno, Confirmation Bias
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“Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.” — Jack McDevitt, Odyssey
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“We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.” — David Suzuki, “What a difference 50 years makes,” davidsuzuki.org (27 June 2008)
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“Historically, anything that gets information to people is good for the world. The most important human being who ever lived, if you want to leave out religious figures, would be Johannes Gutenberg… that’s when the liberation of human thought happened, because people could read the thoughts of people across the world, and have thoughts of their own, and publish them and spread information around.” — Tom Clancy, Interview on Larry King Live
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