Information Excess Quotes

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

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

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

If you read enough Lionel Fanthorpe, your brain starts to turn to jelly and just dribbles out of your ears.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Too much information about nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

On an average day 7 minutes of news happens. Yet there are currently three full-time, 24-hour news networks.

If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

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.