{"quotes":[{"text":"The really strange thing about this is that it was one of the Fog Facts.That is, it was not a secret. It was known. But it was not known. That is, if you asked a knowledgeable journalist, or political analyst, or a historian, they knew about it. If you yourself went and checked the record, you could find it out. But if you asked the man in the street if President Scott, who loved to have his picture taken among the troops and driving armored vehicles and aboard naval vessels, if you asked if Scott had found a way to evade service in Vietnam, they wouldn't have a clue, and, unless they were anti-Scott already, they wouldn't believe it.In the information age there is so much information that sorting and focus and giving the appropriate weight to anything have become incredibly difficult. Then some fact, or event, or factoid mysteriously captures the world's attention and there's a media frenzy. Like Clinton and Lewinsky. Like O. J. Simpson. And everybody in the world knows everything about it. On the flip side are the Fog Facts, important things that nobody seems able to focus on any more than the can focus on a single droplet in the mist. They are known, but not known.","author":"Larry Beinhart","tags":["information","information-age","information-literacy"],"id":9771,"author_id":"Larry+Beinhart"},{"text":"The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.","author":"R.F. Georgy","tags":["digital-age","dostoevsky","information","information-age","notes-from-the-underground","philosophy","progress","science","technology"],"id":12048,"author_id":"R.F.+Georgy"},{"text":"Never believe all that you hear.Always verify the original source of information.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["believe","believe-and-achieve","believers","belive-in-yourself","hear","hearing","information","information-age","information-literacy","informational","verification","verify"],"id":27005,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Information is key, being informed is success.","author":"Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba","tags":["information","information-age","inspirational","success"],"id":65990,"author_id":"Chidiebere+Prosper+Agbugba"},{"text":"The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.","author":"Julian Barnes","tags":["information","information-age","internet","prescient","world-wide-web"],"id":95128,"author_id":"Julian+Barnes"},{"text":"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.","author":"Edward Snowden","tags":["free-press","free-speech","information-age","internet","mass-surveillance","nothing-to-hide","nsa","privacy","snowden","surveillance"],"id":98876,"author_id":"Edward+Snowden"},{"text":"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.","author":"Ronald Reagan","tags":["censorship","information-age","internet","microchip","surveillance","totalitarianism"],"id":120673,"author_id":"Ronald+Reagan"},{"text":"Information paints no picture, sings no song, and writes no poem.","author":"R.F. Georgy","tags":["digital-age","dostoevsky","existentialism","feyodor-dostoevsky","information","information-age","notes-from-the-underground","progress"],"id":138713,"author_id":"R.F.+Georgy"},{"text":"And yet Rebecca felt that it was hard to tell whether the secret algorithms of Big Data did not so much reveal you to yourself as they tried to dictate to you what you were to be. To accept that the machines knew you better than you knew yourself involved a kind of silent assent: you liked the things Big Data told you you were likely to like, and you loved the people it said you were likely to love. To believe entirely in the data entailed a slight diminishment of the self, small but crucial and, perhaps, irreversible.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["big-data","dexter-palmer","identity","information-age","version-control"],"id":138731,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"Netiquette brings the World together through the Internet for the Information Age. It's all data. NetworkEtiquette.Net.","author":"David Chiles","tags":["information-age","internet","netiquette","netiquette-rules","network-etiquette","rules-for-netiquette","world"],"id":140252,"author_id":"David+Chiles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}