Christopher McCulloch Quotes

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

There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that more and more information is enough, that you don't have to think, you just have to get more information - gets very dangerous.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.

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

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

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

My past has been recorded, it's been videoed. It's been exploited all over the Internet.

When we look back on this time and we are going to see what the Internet brought us, and social media brought us, I think people are going to say 'how did people know anything in those years, during that particular time in history?' Because there is so much disorganization in the information.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

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.

I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

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

Social media's greatest assets - anonymity, 'virality,' interconnectedness - are also its main weaknesses.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

We live in a culture of destructive transparency.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

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.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

I would have gone right ahead but the only thing, the only phenomenon that's going on now of course, which is different in my experiences, is that you are getting things planted in the Net by people about the Woman in White on the Net. That's not a nice change.

People know everything about everybody now.

I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.

The Internet is an open sewer of unfiltered, untreated information. The Internet can make you smarter, faster than anything else in the world. It can also make you dumber faster.