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"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
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"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."

"Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking."

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

"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."

"I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!"

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

"I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify."

"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."
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"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?"


"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts."


"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms."


"Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort."


"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."


"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
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