Information

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Eliot Paulina Sumner es un cantante, compositor y actor inglés. Son el hijo del músico Sting y de Trudie Styler.

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“Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don’t even arise.”
— Jean Baudrillard French semiologist. Cool Memories, Ch. 5 (1987, trans. 1990).
“Information is not a substance or concrete entity but rather a relationship between sets or ensembles of structured variety.”
— Walter F. Buckley (1967), Sociology and Modern Systems Theory p. 47.
“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
— Thomas Edison, As quoted in Golden Book (April 1931), according to Stevenson's Book of Quotations (Cassell 3rd edition 1938) by Burton Egbert Stevenson.
“There's no going back, and there's no hiding the information. So let everyone have it.”
— Andrew Kantor, as quoted in The Transparent Society, by David Brin, p. 1. Perseus Books Group, 1998.
“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.”
— Herbert Simon, Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”
— Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Sir Robert Chiltern, in An Ideal Husband, Act 1.

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