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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | ||
|15 = '''[[Writing]], the [[pain]]ful process of [[transformation|transforming]] [[three-dimensional]], [[parallel processing|parallel-processed]] [[experience]] into [[two-dimensional]], [[linear]] [[narrative]].'''<br /> | |15 = '''[[Writing]], the [[pain]]ful process of [[transformation|transforming]] [[three-dimensional]], [[parallel processing|parallel-processed]] [[experience]] into [[two-dimensional]], [[linear]] [[narrative]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist)</cite> | ||
|16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be [[understanding|understood]]. Write so you cannot possibly be [[misunderstanding|misunderstood]].'''<br /> | |16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be [[understanding|understood]]. Write so you cannot possibly be [[misunderstanding|misunderstood]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850–1894)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850–1894)</cite> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | ||
|21 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | |21 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite> | ||
|22 = '''[[Ignorance]] is the [[curse]] of [[God]], [[knowledge]] the [[wing]] wherewith we [[flight|fly]] to [[heaven]].'''<br /> | |22 = '''[[Ignorance]] is the [[curse]] of [[God]], [[knowledge]] the [[wing]] wherewith we [[flight|fly]] to [[heaven]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | ||
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|29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | |29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite> | ||
|30 = '''The more I | |30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite> | ||
|31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of [[information]] but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.'''<br /> | |31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of [[information]] but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.'''<br /> | ||
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The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
— MASIS report of the European Commission
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing