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"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."
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"When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation."

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

"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."

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

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

"When disinformation is running rampant, there are two ignorances that may emerge: the one is actually positive, a sort of pure and intentional emptying of the mind; but the other is of course negative and clogged and polluted."

"Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective."

"I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk."

"Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another."

"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration."

"The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all."

"While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader."

"There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation."

"Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information."

"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."

"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."

"The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program."
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