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Useless Information Quotes

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.
- George Orwell

I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.
- George Orwell

Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?
- Simone Elkeles

I had to cast out a good many lines, though, before I got what I wanted, and when I landed the fish I did not for a moment suppose it was my fish. But I listened to what I was told out of a constitutional liking for useless information, and I found myself in possession of a very curious story, though, as I imagined, not the story I was looking for.
- Arthur Machen

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
- Bill Watterson

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