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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | ||
Revision as of 01:05, 29 March 2011
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 quote about knowledge or writing