"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."

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"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."

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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

Voltaire, French Writer

Information, News, Patience, Confirmation, Truth

"Perfect truth (symmetry) is information that doesn't change and pure randomness is a difference that doesn't make a difference."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Information, Truth, Science, Meaning

"But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Information, Research, Senses

"How easy it is for so many of us today to be undoubtedly full of information yet fully deprived of accurate information."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Information, Knowledge, Truth, Awareness

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Information,

"These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information."

Charles Sturt, Australian Explorer

Information, Journey, Writing

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Information, Nothing

"This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information."

John Scarlett, British Celebrity

Information, Military

"I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible."

Yancy Butler, American Actress

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"Video just accesses international information so much more readily."

Ann Macbeth, English Author

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"The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue."

Information,

"If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable."

Christian, Christ

"The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved."

Man, Men, Affection, Country, Order

"Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information."

Creativity, Ideas, Importance, Information

"A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom - it's gone."

Nothing, Tomorrow, Yesterday

"Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit."

People,

"People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were."

Art, People, Conversation

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Home, Freedom

"The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."

Computer, End, Old, Will

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."

Soul, America, Dissent, Opposition