David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
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“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
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“The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) German philosopher
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Context: The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. What is said in it constitutes the common world in which we live. … The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it — what is said.
“The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer
Thoughts in the Wilderness (London: William Heinemann, 1957), p. 201.
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Calvin Mooers (1919–1994) American computer scientist
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Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
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Context: There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 246