“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451

De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: A god is the idea of a god. The idea of a god is a god. The idea of Glycon is Glycon, if I can enhance that idea with an anaconda and a speaking tube, fair enough. I am unlikely to start believing that this glove puppet created the universe. It’s a fiction, all gods are fiction. It’s just that I happen to think that fiction’s real. Or that it has its own reality, that is just as valid as ours. I happen to believe that most of the important things in the material world start out as fiction. That everything around us was once fiction – before there was the table there was the idea of a table, and the idea of a table before tables was fiction. This is the most important world, the world of fictional things. That’s the world where all this starts.

Message, linux-kernel mailing list, IU, 1996-07-20, Torvalds, Linus, 2014-04-26 http://www.webcitation.org/6P8EBZqQX, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99

Source: The Age of Missing Information (1992), p. 9

"Colbert spoofs cable news on Daily Show spinoff" Associated Press report (31 October 2005)

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 294.

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Comment during a visit to the United States, as quoted in The Independent [London] (12 September 1989)
1980s

Source: Information Systems (1973), p. 331; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011).