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1984·Sausalito, California, USA

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. It also wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life.

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Eleanor Roosevelt·1960

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)

Seneca·65 AD

Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And there is plenty of it left even for posterity to discover.

Carl Sagan·1977

It is important to distinguish between the amount of information and the quality of that information.

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