Knowledge

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Knowledge applied to existing processes, services and products is productivity; knowledge applied to the new is innovation.

Interview, Hot Wired (July/August 1993)
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

1Q84
If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

After Dark
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
He who knows much has many cares
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed...
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known
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