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We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem. ↗

— Patricia Sun

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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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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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As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Mathematics is the music of reason. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#music #reason

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. ↗

— Tom Peters

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Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age. ↗

— Pete du Pont

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