“Many of us dismiss talk that does not convey important information as worthless - meaningless small talk if it's a social setting or "empty rhetoric" if it's public. Such admonitions as "Skip the small talk, " "Get to the point," or "Why don't you say what you mean?" may seem to be reasonable. But they are reasonable only if information is all that counts. This attitude toward talk ignores the fact that people are emotionally involved with each other and that talking is the major way be establish, maintain, monitor and adjust our relationships.”
Deborah Tannen
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Cynics are well-informed optimists”
Jeff Frieden
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
Winston Churchill
“That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.”
Edward Abbey
“On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.”
J. Michael Straczynski
“Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information”
John Erskine
