We know too much for one man to know too much.
Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.
The cure to information overload is more information.
Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
At what point in human history, when was the last time it was possible for any human being to know everything that was known at that time? For example, it is humanly impossible for any human being to know everything now. So how are we gonna define smart?
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
We are getting way too much info in the cockpit. Sometimes I switch off the display in my car!
I think sometimes you need a little more explanation than the characters that you're allowed on Twitter.
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?
With the hyperlinks, '253' says, 'Look at all the links we have we don't know about.' Without the links, the message becomes, 'Look at God's infinite variety.'
We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
