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"Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity."
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"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
"I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter."
"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
"If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Abu Ghraib and turn you over to the soldiers. Maybe there's only one or two of you in this group who was a known associate or had any piece of information that they are trying to exploit."
"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."
"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops."
"Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use."
"The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States."
"The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device."
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"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
"It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge."
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject."
"A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine."
"The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages."
"Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall."
"To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance."
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