Information Overload Quotes

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we're well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

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

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Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

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