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To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

— Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)

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We know that for a long time everything we do will be nothing more than the jumping off point for those who have the advantage of already being aware of our ultimate results.

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Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

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There are no answers, only cross-references.

A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent'

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