Excessive Information Quotes

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.

I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.

I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.

I think there's a lot of unnecessary bullshit on the Internet. You can drown in it.

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.