Information as a concept

 [I]nformation as a category is a historically specific concept, and the emergence of the tabbed manila folder provides an object through which to understand the development (not the origin) of a distinctly modern conception of information as a thing that exists in the world, as something that is impersonal, discrete, and easily extracted."

Craig Robertson, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History of Information (St. Paul, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2021), p. 127-28

Participating in a creative act

To play the trumpet is to participate in a creative act, since without the performer music would have no life. To be aware that one is participating in such an act, however small the role may seem, is to recognize the responsibility each person has to produce his particular contribution at the highest possible level.

Keith Johnson, The Art of Trumpet Playing (Ames, Iowa: The Iowa State University Press, 1981), pp. 50-51