Information Glut Quotes

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

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

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

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.

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.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

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

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

The beautiful image today means nothing. It's worthshit. In fact, it's almost as if it has the opposite effect, becauseyou're just like everything else out there.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.