Information Fatigue Quotes

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

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.

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.

You can't pick up a business magazine ever without seeing the word 'collaborate' splashed all over it. I think people are probably feeling assaulted by the need to always be on and always be interacting.

Without question, we need to be informed of the happenings in the world. But modern communication brings into our homes a drowning cascade of the violence and misery of the worldwide human race. There comes a time when we need to find some peaceful spiritual renewal.

Like many a better one before me, I have gone down under the force of numbers, under the books and books and books that keep coming out and coming out and coming out, shoals of them, spates of them, flash floods of them, too blame many books, and no sign of an end.

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

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

As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.

More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.

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

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

I honestly think I'm going to rot my brain with all the news. I'm a news junkie.

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

I no longer buy papers or tabloids or magazines or read blogs. I used to. But it was just filling up my day with hatred.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.