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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.

I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.