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In 2007, for the first time ever, more information was generated in one year than had been produced in the entire previous five thousand years - the period since the invention of writing.

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Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.

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Information is not a substance or concrete entity but rather a relationship between sets or ensembles of structured variety.

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If you torture the data enough, nature will always confess.

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Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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Information is not lost in black holes, but it is not returned in a useful way. It is like burning an encyclopaedia. Information is not lost, but it is very hard to read.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

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You've seen how information holds system together and how delayed, biased, scattered, or missing information can make feedback loops malfunction. Decision-makers can respond to information they don't have, can't respond accurately to information that is inaccurate, and can't respond in a timely way to information that is late. I would guess that most of what goes wrong in systems goes wrong because of biased, late, or missing information. [...] Information is power.

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Information smacks of safe neutrality; it is simple, helpful heaping of unassailable facts. In that innocent guise, its the perfect starting point for a technocratic political agenda that wants as little exposure for its objectives as possible. After all, what can anyone say against information?

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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.

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Information exists. It does not need to be perceived to exist. It does not need to be understood to exist. It requires no intelligence to interpret it. It does not have to have meaning to exist. It exists.

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You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.

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Data, seeming facts, apparent asso\xadciations-these are not certain knowledge of something. They may be puzzles that can one day be explained; they may be trivia that need not be explained at all.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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