Information

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Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible... you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there's a better deal elsewhere. It's a whole new world.

Quoted in The Financial Revolution: The Big Bang Worldwide (1986)
We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.

Interview, 'The Next Insanely Great Thing,' Wired Magazine (February 1996)
The first thing practically everyone must learn is to take information responsibly.

Quoted in Techno Vision, 1994
Information is not knowledge
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information
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