Gunter Grass Quotes

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, who have been talking to my cat on the Internet.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence 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.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

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

The Internet is an amazing development.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The Internet, man, is a beautiful thing.

The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.

We are drowning in information.

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

If this is the information age, what are we so well-informed about?

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

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form - has expanded literally beyond comprehension. Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

… in the modern world, in which any tom‐dick‐or‐harry has ready access to the Internet, the professional press is no longer a necessary intermediary for leakers.

The Internet is one of the biggest advances ever in our world.

The Internet is amazing.

We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

The Internet, as a platform, I think is really fantastic.