A Commonplace Book

Category: information...

  • information can be acquired, recorded, organized, retrieved, displayed, and disseminated
  • facts and opinions provided and received during the course of daily life
  • the observable phenomena in the surrounding environment
  • a body of knowledge to be acquired by systematic exposure to study
  • every living entity is endowed with information in the form of a genetic code
  • double- or triple-checking information you gather on the Internet
  • a lot of the information we acquire is gotten by looking something up and finding something else along the way
  • viewing information through insight
  • The mind can store an estimated 100 trillion bits of information - compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac. (S. Begley)
  • It is a very sad thing nowadays there is so little useless information. (O. Wilde)
  • even the humblest fact is a thumbtack, pinning something down

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