Data Deluge Quotes

[…] a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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 world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

We are drowning in information.

The cure to information overload is more information.

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.

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.

There is always more information than attention

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

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.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

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.

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

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

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

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.