"Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters."

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Source : "Decision Support Systems: Frequently Asked Questions" by Daniel J. Power, (p. 23), 2004.

C. West Churchman

#Information Quotes #Matter Quotes #Collections Quotes

“Love is the garment of knowledge.”
“When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.”
“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit”
“A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“I never had a time line for my life. I didn't say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32.”
“Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
“Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.”
“Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.”

Source : Andrea Camilleri (2010). “The Track of Sand”, p.35, Penguin

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