Digital Chaos Quotes

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

I don't think anybody has a choice. Everybody has to kind of interact with all the craziness right now. I don't like to engage - a lot of people made a point of doing the social media thing, and I think that social media is complete trash, so I treat it like that. I like Instagram. I like the funny photos. Other than that, it's not for me.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

In the media, traditional media like print, we had boundaries. You know, we had spaces that ads didn't leave. They stayed where they were on the page. They didn't float around over the text. And we're kind of lost on the internet. We don't have any barriers. We have a demand for growth that is insistent.

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

What the Internet's value is that you have access to information but you also have access to every lunatic that's out there that wants to throw up a blog.

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.