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  1. If you file your waste basket for 50 years, you have a public library.Tony Benn (b.1925) British politician. Daily Telegraph (London) (March 1994)

 

  1. I’d always rather err on the side of openness. But there’s a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgement call. The art of leadership is knowing how much information you’re going to pass on.Warren Bennis (b.1925) U.S. educator and writer. Interview, Strateg + Business (July-September 1997)

 

  1. A Harvard professor told me that if ther was no Gallup poll there’d be no Bill Clinton.Jim Clifton (b.1951) U.S. C.E.O. of Gallup. Financial Times (London) (October 2000)

 

4 .Our memories are card-indexes, consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not                           control.Cyril Connolly (1903-74) British critic, essayist and novelist. The Uniquiet Grave (1944)

 

  1. Yet another revolution has begun in the field of information systems. When it is over…users will completely control individual information systems.John Dearden (b.1919) U.S. professor of accounting, planning, and control. “The Withering Away of the IT Organization,” Sloan Management Review (1987)

 

  1. The fewer data needed, the better the information.Peter F. Drucker (b.1909) U.S. management consultant and academic. Management Tasks, Responsibilities and Practices (1973)

 

  1. The first thing practically everyone must learn to take information responsibly.Peter F. Drucker (b.1909) U.S. management consultant and academic. Quoted in Techno Vision (C. B. Wang; 1994)

 

  1. We had the experience but missed the meaning.T.S. Eliot (b.1948) British poet, dramatist, and critic. “The Dry Salvages,” Four Quartets (1943)

 

  1. C. R. England captures information on everything and reccles it back through the engine to improve performance.Dan England (b.1948) U.S. C.E.O. of C.R. England. “The Mavericks,” Fortune (June 1995)

 

  1. We want to run this place like the cockpit of a jetliner, where you have hundreds of different instruments before you at all times and know exactly where you are.Dan England (b.1948) U.S. C.E.O. of C.R. England. “The Mavericks,” Fortune (June 1995)

 

  1. It is a far, far better thin to have firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.K. Galbraith (b.1908) U.S. economist and diplomat. The Affluent Society (1958)

 

  1. I want no surprises.Harold S. Geneen (1910-97) U.S. telecommunications entrepreneur and C.E.O. of ITT. Managing (co-written with Alvin Moscow; 1984)

 

  1. The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to smell a real fact from all others.S. Geneen (1910-97) U.S. telecommunications entrepreneur and C.E.O. of ITT. Managing (co-written with Alvin Moscow; 1984)

 

  1. An individual without information cannot take responsibility; an individual who is given information cannot help but take responsibility.Wilbert Lee Gore (d.1986) U.S. founder of Goretex. Quoted in Thriving on Chaos (Tom Peters; 1987)

 

  1. Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.Gunter Grass (b.1927) German novelist and winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Interview, New Statesman (June 22, 1990)

 

  1. Most management books should not be tossed aside lightly; they should be hurled against the wall great force.Michael Hammer (b.1948) U.S. author and academic. Hemispheres (in-flight magazine for United Airlines) (December 1996)

 

  1. Hoarding information or getting it first was one way managers in traditional companies expressed their power. But information blockages make the whole system less effective.Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b.1943) U.S. management theorist, academic, and writer. “How E-Smart Are You?,” World Link (January-February 2000)

 

  1. The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.Marshall McLuhan (1911-80) Canadian sociologist and author. Interview, Playboy (March 1969)

 

  1. While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.Henry Mintzberg (b.1939) Canadian academic and management theorist. The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning (1994)

 

  1. Most employees in portal companies are involved in the research, development…production and presentation of information. Most Fortune 1,000 companies are heavily dependent on physical products and process, this makes half their workforce obsolete.William (Walid) Mougayar, U.S. consultant and management theorist. “What you can learn from the portals,” Computerworld (August 31, 1998)

 

  1. I have direct knowledge. I don’t have to call someone to ask a question.Nancy Peretsman (B.1955) U.S. investment banker. Forbes (May 1999)

 

  1. A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.Carl Shapiro (b.1955) U.S. academic and author. Information Rules (co-written with Hal L Varian; 1999)

 

  1. Information is costly to produce, but cheap to reproduce.Carl Shapiro (b.1955) U.S. academic and author. Information Rules (co-written with Hal L Varian; 1999)

 

  1. Information is like an oyster. It has its greatest value when it is fresh.Carl Shapiro (b.1955) U.S. academic and author. Information Rules (co-written with Hal L Varian; 1999)

 

  1. Facts are available to everyone; it is interpretation and implementation that is key.Ric Simcock (b.1965) British advertising executive. Marketing (September 2000)

 

  1. The biggest opportunity is harnessing our knowledge within the organization to provide better solutions.Martin Sorrell (b.1945) British advertising executive. Interview (March 2000)

 

  1. I am a seeker of the small facts, not the big explanation; a narrator, not a philosopher.Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-89) U.S. historian. Interview (1963)

 

  1. Information is power. I see CNN as the democratization of information.Ted Turner (b.1938) U.S. founder of Turner Broadcasting Systems. Washington Post (July 18, 1988)

 

  1. Information is a business in itself. It is also something that has made control impossible…you cannot get customers to accept prices in one place when they know there’s a better deal elsewhere. It’s a whole new world.Walter Wriston (b.1919) U.S. banker. November 1985. Quoted in The Financial Revolution: The Big Bang Worldwide (Adrian Hamilton; 1986), ch. 2

 

  1. The informated workplace, which may no longer be a place at all, is an arena through which information circulates, information to which intellectual effort is applied.Shoshana Zuboff (b.1951) U.S. social scientist and author. In the Age of the Smart Machine (1988)