Jimmy Iovine Quotes

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything!

Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

The more material there is, the more need there is for filters. You don't need a printing press anymore, but you do need people who know how to cultivate sources, double-check information and put the brand of legitimacy on it.

Anything you see on the screen was at one point approved by me.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

Curation comes up when search stops working.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

If the past decade was the decade of searching and finding and looking for stuff, this coming decade is going to be the decade of filtering and going to your friends for recommendations.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK fine. But I personally prefer calibration from an aggregator or newspaper, where the No. 1 story is one they consider important, [and] they're usually right.

For too long, reporters for the big media outlets have been fixated on novelty, always moving too quickly onto the next big score or the next hot get. Paradoxically, in these days of instant communication and sixty-minute news cycles, it's actually easier to miss information we might otherwise pay attention to. That's why we need stories to be covered and re-covered until they filter up enough to become part of the cultural bloodstream.

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

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