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Jeder ist immer erreichbar. Die ganze Welt beschleunigt sich, alles ist dringend, und wo alles dringend ist, ist nichts mehr dringend, und damit schlittern wir in eine Bedeutungslosigkeit hinein. ↗


— Joseph Weizenbaum


#digitalization #information #media #communication

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. ↗


— Arthur Conan Doyle


#deduction #information #mistake #theories #theory

Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict ↗


— Trenton Lee Stewart


#librarians #library #freedom

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on. ↗


— Molly Harper


#trivia #undead #useless-information #vampire-romance #information

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same. ↗


— Joe Hill


#information #internet

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds. ↗


— Alain de Botton


#new-media #social-media #media

As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations. ↗


— Bill Watterson


#taking-tests #useless-information #cynicism

I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. ↗


— Scott Adams


#i love #information #kind #love #magazines

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. ↗


— Scott Adams


#approach #be careful #careful #cause #company

Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me. ↗


— Todd Akin


#becomes #climate #contains #control #defines






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