Oliver Stone Quotes

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.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

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

Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.

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.

We are drowning in information.

I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.

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

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

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

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

Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.

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.

People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.

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

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

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

People's minds are overloaded with information.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers— conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, much less to remember, as they appear. Yet specialization becomes increasingly necessary for progress.