Pico Iyer Quotes

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.

I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

I think the American people are bombarded with information from all directions, all day long.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.