Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

The expansion of choice has become an explosion of choice.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

When you give people too many choices it makes them hesitate and not buy stuff.

The best things beyond their measure cloy.

There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

Plentitude, when too plentitudinous, was worst than destitution, for obviously what could one do, if there was nothing one could not?

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

What leads us astray is confusing more choices with more control. Because it is not clear that the more choices you have the more in control you feel. We have more choices than we've ever had before.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Too much may be the equivalent of none at all.

If you just add all the time, add more and more light, it loses its meaning.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.

Too much is the same as not enough.

I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

There is a different attitude about, you know, how much differentiation there needs to be between our options and how many choices do I need to have in order to make a choice.

Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued

If nothing were substituted for everything, it would still be too much and too little.

More always means worse.