Fred Schneider Quotes

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.

A lot of places think that bigger is better. It's like consumerism is taking everything over.

I go through money like a bloke with three arms.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.

We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.

I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

I want to do everything. That's my problem.

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

The Happy Warrior of Squandermania.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

I have more than 100 pairs of Jimmy Choos and I feel very guilty about it.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.

I always have a tendency to take on too many things.

There are lots of new products and new services making adding content easier. But there's not many people on the other side helping users digest that content.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.