Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

We're all posting and clicking and sharing, but we're not devoting enough attention to get anything meaningful from it all.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.

I like to keep certain stuff to myself just because I feel like technology is taking over people's lives.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

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.

In a world of cell phones and satellite feeds - a world in which the president can sit in the White House situation room and watch a military action unfold on the other side of the world - it is not realistic to expect TV news to be anything but what it has become: a ceaseless flow of words and images that may or may not be accurate.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

There's a danger of the Internet just becoming loud, ugly and boring with a thousand voices screaming for attention.

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

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.

I don't know about you, but all this modern technology that's supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans, the physical cost of sedentary 'surfing' and the potential for coarsening discourse as millions of web pages compete for attention by appealing to our base instincts.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.