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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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Herbert Simon, economist
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
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Learned Hand, jurist
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
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Nathaniel Borenstein (1957 - )
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.
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Michael McClary
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
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Hans A. Bethe
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