"Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive."

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Stewart Brand

#Want Quotes #Information Quotes

“The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.”
“Do we tend to recall the most important parts of a novel or those that speak most directly to us, the truest lines or the flashiest ones?”
“One thing I've learned in my career is that you don't have to answer people right away. I've learned how to say, "Can I get back to you about that?" Now I've given myself time to really assess what you asked me to do or what the situation is, think about it, then come up with a plan. Then by doing that, when I come back to you, it's not what I say it's how I say it.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.”
“Unfortunately, these past few years, you can work hard, try to be as successful as possible, follow the rules, and President Barack Obama will do everything he can to stand in your way.”
“The point of women's liberation is not to stand at the door of the male world, beating our fists, and crying, 'Let me in, damn you, let me in!' The point is to walk away from the world and concentrate on creating a new woman.”
“Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.”

Source : All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. December 18, 2003.
“The best defense against democracy is to distract people.”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.241, Soft Skull Press

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