“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”

“The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.”

“I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.”

“A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.”

“A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.”

“Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a usefulfantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiencesit in a useful way.”