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Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability. ↗

— Claude Shannon

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Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations. ↗

— John M. Smith

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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Gertrude Stein

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As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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Perspective gives us the ability to accurately contrast the large with the small, and the important with the less important. Without it we are lost in a world where all ideas, news, and information look the same. We cannot differentiate, we cannot prioritize, and we cannot make good choices. ↗

— John Sununu

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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white. ↗

— Patricia Sun

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I'm interested in how the Internet spreads information. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

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Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

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