Information is the result of processing, manipulating and organizing data in a way that adds to the knowledge of the person receiving it.

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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.
  • Jean Baudrillard French semiologist. Cool Memories, Ch. 5 (1987, trans. 1990)

• Wisdom is dead. Long live information.
  • Mason Cooley (1927-2002), American academic and aphorist. City Aphorisms (1984)

• Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.
  • Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911), American author. The Technique of Rest, Ch. 2 (1892)

• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
  • Samuel Johnson, Boswell's Life of Johnson, 18th April 1775.

• When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
  • Ursela K. Le Guin (b. 1929), American Science Fiction author. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ch. 3 (1969)

• 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, Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
  • Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Sir Robert Chiltern, in An Ideal Husband, Act 1.

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