Information Abundance 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.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

The essential traits of a leaker are an abundance of information and a lack of power.

That's the power of the Internet: you can literally find everything.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

I love the Internet, but it's hard not to get lost in it. It's not like a book where you start and get to the end. It's like we've found a way to encapsulate all of human knowledge within one thing only to learn that you can't do that. It's an overabundance of information.

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less.

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.

The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.