Marilyn French Quotes

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

I don't let myself 'surf' on the Web, or I would probably drown.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

We just may be the most well-informed, yet least self-aware, people in history.

So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.

I suppose you are two fathoms deep in mathematics, and if you are, then God help you. For so am I, only with this difference: I stick fast in the mud at the bottom, and there I shall remain.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.