#need

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. ↗

— Peter Singer

#amount #available #connection #dwarfs #easier

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them. ↗

— Peter Singer

#capture #cruel #eating #find #fish

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#establish #excesses #far #first #first thing

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#become #develop #energy #energy sources #less

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ↗

— Lillian Smith

#around #both #curve #doubt #needed

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. ↗

— Liz Smith

#effective #hope #need #power #want

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#acquaintances #boast #complain #kinds #need

The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers. ↗

— John Spencer

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