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"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991

"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." - Eliot, T. S.

"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another." - Feynman, Richard

"Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )

"We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on." - Hubel, David [neuroscientist] 1979

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Nesen, Ron

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