Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
Harper Lee 1960

Making the impossible very difficult.
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Marcus Aurelius
from "Promoting a Sustainable Future: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing"

the challenge for information science is to devise strategies that use the strengths of both humans and machine to discover these unnoticed connections and turn...the information explosion into an 'opportunity explosion'
M. D. Gordon and R. K. Lindsay, Toward discovery support systems: A replication, re-examination, and extension of Swanson's work on literature-based discovery of a connection between Raynaud's and fish oil, JASIST 47 (1996) 116-128.

The idea of asking people to write the angle brackets by hand was to me, and I assumed to many, as unacceptable as asking one to prepare a Microsoft Word document by writing out its binary coded format
Tim Berners-Lee "Weaving the Web"

Attention as opposed to information is now widely acknowledged to be the scarce resource in the Internet age
M. Dzbor, E. Motta, J. Domingue, Magpie: Experiences in supporting Semantic Web browsing, Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 5(3) (2007) 204-222.

Information, once rare and cherished like caviar, is now plentiful and taken for granted like potatoes
Shenk 1997

A problem is recognized, and it is recognized that information might be necessary to resolve the problem, but precisely because of the inquirer's lack of knowledge about the problem area, it is impossible [for users] to specify what would resolve it
Belkin 1980

If computers could understand stories that can be comprehended by four-year-olds, this would be considered a breakthrough for automated natural language understanding
J. Natarajan, D. Berrar, C.J. Hack, and W. Dublitzky, Knowledge discovery in biology and biotechnology texts: A review of techniques, evaluation strategies, and applications, Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 25 (2005) 31-52.

Emphasis on machine-based reasoning actually draws one further away, rather than closer to the task of individual scholarship
Bradley 2008

There will always be a supply of knowledge contributors, who are often the younger workers wishing to make a name for themselves
Eric Neumann and Larry Prusak, Knowledge networks in the age of the Semantic Web, Briefings in Bioinfomatics, May 2007, vol 8 (3): 141-149

patterns suggest that researchers are not reading more, but rather scanning, exploring and getting exposure to more sources...practicing active reading avoidance, as they quickly navigate through more material, spending less and less time with each item, attempting to assess and exploit content with as little actual reading as possible
p.20, "Scholarly Information Practices in the Online Environment: Themes from the Literature and Implications for Library Service Development"
Authors: Carole L. Palmer, Lauren C. Teffeau and Carrie M. Pirmann. Published: Jan 2009

Once you have reviewed the reports and academic articles that you have found, call the authors of studies that are of particular interest.
Doug McKenzie-Mohr, and published by NRTEE in "Promoting a Sustainable Future: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing"

it is always easier to destroy than to create
Vivian Kraines

Scientific papers, which used to be like "letters", now are more like "bottles in the Internet ocean"
Steven Kraines

quotes from "Broken Open" by Elizabeth Lesser:

no problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it
Einstein

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost
Dante Alighieri

People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive... so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive
Joseph Campbell

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances
Victor Frankl

The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us
Friedrich Nietzsche

quotes from Brave New World:

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
World Controller Mustapha Mond
Brave New World, Chapter 16, pg. 199

Sometimes, I rather regret the science. Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.
World Controller Mustapha Mond
Brave New World, Chapter 16, pg. 204

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy
World Controller Mustapha Mond
Brave New World, Chapter 17, pg. 211

Some longer excerpts from books:

In short, if the July temperature in Chicago had averaged 14 degrees above the norm, as it did in Moscow, there would have been chaos in world grain markets. Grain prices would have climbed off the charts. Some grain-exporting countries, trying to hold down domestic food prices, would have restricted or even banned exports, as they did in 2007-08. The TV evening news would be dominated by footage of food riots in lowincome grain-importing countries and by reports of governments falling as hunger spread. Grain-importing countries that export oil would be trying to barter oil for grain. Low-income grain importers would lose out. With governments falling and with confidence in the world grain market shattered, the global economy could have started to unravel.
Lester Brown - World on the Edge

Many people labor in life under the impression that they are doing something right, yet they may not show solid results for a long time. They need a capacity for continuously adjourned gratification to survive a steady diet of peer cruelty without becoming demoralized. They look like idiots to their cousins, they look like idiots to their peers, they need courage to continue. No confirmation comes to them, no validation, no fawning students, no Nobel, no Schnobel. "How was your year:" brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside. Then bang, the lumpy event comes that brings the grand vindication. Or it may never come.
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb p. 87

The researcher Thomas Astebro has shown that returns on independent inventions (you take the cemetery into account) are far lower than those on venture capital. Some blindness to the odds...is necessary for entrepreneurs to function. The venture capitalist is the one who gets the shekels. The economist William Baumol calls this "a touch of madness." This may indeed apply to all concentrated businesses: when you look at the empirical record, you not only see that venture capitalists do better than entrepreneurs, but publishers do better than writers, dealers do better than artists, and science does better than scientists (about 50 percent of scientific and scholarly papers, costing months, sometimes years of effort, are never truly read).
The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb p. 90