Jarvis Cocker Quotes

We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

If you submit a search of the following phrase on Google, you get over four hundred returns, and they are often very strange ones: "I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

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.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

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

The Pentagon suffers from too much Intelligence. They can't use what they get because there is too much collected. It would almost be better if they didn't have it because it's difficult to find out what's important.

In politics, information is superabundant—what is needed is judgement and selectivity in dealing with that information.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: the attention of its recipients.

We are drowning in information.

Against Knowledge I have, as the light cynic observed of a certain lady's past, only one serious objection - that there is so much of it.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

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

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

I think something that's really understudied and misunderstood is the use of information.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

We get so much information during the day that doesn't really tell us anything.