Dee Hock Quotes

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.

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

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.

We are drowning in information.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

We spend the early years feeding our brains with information and the latter half trying not to think about it all.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

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.

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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.

Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Data is not necessarily information. Information does not necessarily lead to knowledge. And knowledge is not always sufficient to discover truth and breed wisdom.

The unlimited amount of information that I have access to has also given me an unlimited threshold for how I need to be stimulated.

We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the human capacity to absorb and process information.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

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