Digital Clutter Quotes

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

I think Facebook's biggest problem is the glut of information that Facebook's power users are overwhelmed with.

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.

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.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.

I think I have over 60 apps on my iPhone. I use six.

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.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It's nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.

The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.

I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.

We are buried beneath the weight of information.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

I'm just not a messy person... I don't look for pleasure in social media.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

You get a lot of apps and companies that are trying to sell you on something that's totally useless or potentially unhealthy. Only occasionally does something really worthwhile really come out.

I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'