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"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
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"You say that money doesn't bring happiness... but you have them... don't ya?If they don't bring happiness give them to average class and the result will be called "Bringing happiness!"
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"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."
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"Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold."
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"But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid."
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"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth."
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"I love money because money is power, the power to invite my friends for lunch and pay the bill without expecting anything in return, the power to give twenty dollars to beggar just because I can, the power to offer an expensive remote control helicopter to children and create a huge smile in them, the power to wait for the ones you love to love you back just because you don't need to waste your time like they do."
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"Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it."
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"I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
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"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
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"True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly."
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"I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world."
Computer
"One finds limits by pushing them."
Limit
"In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy."
Truth
"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds."
Time
"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it."
Wealth
"Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones."
Action
"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."
Goal
"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
Nothing
"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
Technology
"Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational."
Knowledge
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