"We live in an information economy. The..." - Quote by Steve Jobs
We live in an information economy. The problem is that information's usually impossible to get, at least in the right place, at the right time.
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“I've got to tell you, the Internet is a place you go when you want to turn your brain on, and television is a place you go when you want to turn your brain off. I'm not at all convinced that the twain will meet.”
“The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.”
“Overnight success stories take a long time.”
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“The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. Results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. To accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.”
“This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.”
“These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.”
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“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.”
“Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.”
“The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”