We're Drowning in Information and Starving for Knowledge

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It would be a great mistake to confine your imagination to the way things have always been done. In fact it would consign you to the mediocrity of the marketplace. – Harold Geneen

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy. – Woodrow Wilson

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. – Ronald Reagan

Intuition becomes increasing valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. – John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein

We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. -–Rutherford D. Rogers

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. – Oscar Wilde

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