Information Age

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

~ Doug Larson

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

~ Edward R. Murrow

Adventures

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

~ Albert Einstein

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

~ Edward Gibbon

Thinking for Communication

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss

Language Origins, Making Decisions

How amazing that the language of a few thousand savages living on a fog-encrusted island in the North Sea should become the language of the world.

~ Norman St. John-Stevas

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

~ Adm. Arthur W. Radford