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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in c

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didnt have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. – Herbert Simon

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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

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Information
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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment. – Herbert Simon

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It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Years Day. – Marilu Henner

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Principles are the important things; the more you have of them, the more knowledge you can carry. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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My musical knowledge is so bad its embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. – Jane Campion

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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was peoples only source of knowledge about the world. – Ryszard Kapuscinski

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