Summary for Policymakers (.pdf)
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EPI 2008 Data File (.xls)
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Thomas Jefferson: A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry.
James Madison: Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Voltaire: Quando uma nação começa a pensar, é impossível detê-la [When a nation begins to think, it is impossible to hold it back.]
Fedor Dostoevsky: A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else.
Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi When things are not going well, until you get the truth out on the table, no matter how ugly, you are not in a position to deal with it.
Ben Gilad Top managers’ information is invariably either biased, subjecive, filtered or late. . . . Using intelligence correctly requires a fundamental change in the way top executives make decisions.
Daniel Ellsberg speaking to Henry Kissinger The danger is, you’ll become like a moron. You’ll become incapable of learning from most people in the world, no matter how much experience they have in their particular areas that may be much greater than yours” [because of your blind faith in the value of your narrow and often incorrect secret information].
Alvin Toffler A Informação é um substituto para o tempo, o espaço, o capital e o trabalho [Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor]
Robert Steele: The truth at any cost reduces all other costs.