Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.

David Baldacci
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The speed of the Internet makes it nearly impossible to verify anything. An ancient proverb says that if you can’t verify something, then it must be true. This simply isn’t true any more. We have no choice but to trust the people who are the fastest on the Internet or else we won’t get where we need to be on time.

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