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Information is the oxygen of the modern. It seeps through the walls

topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Ronald Reagan,Guardian(14 June 1989)

Future users of large data banks must be protected from having to know

how the data is organized in the machine(the internal representation).

Edgar F.Codd,A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared

Data Banks. Communication of the ACM,Vol.13,p377,1970

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add

to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead,New Yark Times(9 Aug. 1964)

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things,

various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You

recognise it,in the fourth dimension. This is, with your blood and your

bones,as well as with your eyes.

D.H. Lawrence,Phoenix:The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence,1936

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday

thinking.

Albert Einstein,Out of My Later Years,1950