Information Overload Quotes

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

"Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

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.

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

The cure to information overload is more information.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.