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An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it... Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval system may tend to be used even less.

— Calvin Mooers Calvin Mooers (1959)

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The requirements of information retrieval, of finding information whose location or very existence is a priori unknown.

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People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.

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