Excess Information Quotes

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

People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have access to food whenever we want, we don't know how to control ourselves. I think we have the exact same problem with information.

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

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

What we have is a data glut.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

There's no mystery any more. So my instinct is to show very little, because there's much too much information about everyone, everywhere right now. Reality TV is an example of that.