“[Information] science and technology are now so closely linked that analysis and experiment lead quickly on to invention, to the introduction of new channels”

— Brian Campbell Vickery

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Source: Meeting the challenge (2009), p. xxiii.

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British information theorist 1918–2009

Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist

B.C. Vickery (1970) Techniques of information retrieval, London: Butterworth. p. v; As cited in: Lyn Robinson and David Bawden (2011) " Brian Vickery and the foundations of information science http://www.iskouk.org/conf2011/papers/robinson.pdf".

“[The particular concern of the information scientist] is with the process as a whole – the interaction between the three elements [information behaviour, records, channels] that leads to people becoming informed.”

Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist

Source: Meeting the challenge (2009), p. xxiii.

“The development of the nation is intimately linked with understanding and application of science and technology by its people.”

Vikram Sarabhai (1919–1971) (1919-1971), Indian physicist

Quoted in "Vikram A. Sarabhai".
Source: [The Tenth Dr. Vikram A. Sarabhai Festival of Performing Arts, https://www.prl.res.in/~library/sarabhai_v_quotes.pdf, PRL.res.in, 12 September 2019, https://web.archive.org/web/20190627192004/https://www.prl.res.in/~library/sarabhai_v_quotes.pdf, 12 September 2019, 28]

“Introduction to a Discovery Channel documentary about Idi Amin.”

Idi Amin (1925–2003) third president of Uganda

“We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge. The management science team can properly analyse a situation and present recommendations to the manager, but no change occurs. The situation is so familiar to those of us who try to practice management science that I hardly need to describe the cases.”

C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist

C. West Churchman, "Managerial acceptance of scientific recommendations" in California Management Review, Vol 7 (1964), p. 33; cited in Management Systems (1971), by Peter P. Schoderbek, p. 199
1960s - 1970s

“In the industrial mode of development, the main source of productivity lies in the introduction of new energy sources, and in the ability to decentralize the use of energy throughout the production of circulation processes. In the new informational mode of development the source of productivity lies in the technology of knowledge generation, information processing and symbolic … what is specific to the informational mode of development is the action of knowledge upon knowledge itself as the main source of productivity… in a virtuous circle of interaction”

Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)

Source: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996, p. 16-17 as cited in: Andy Hargreaves (2003) Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity. p. 16