Information Overload Quotes

Information Overload Quote of the day

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

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

Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

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.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The cure to information overload is more information.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.

The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

Information Overload = "information pollution"

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

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.

We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

I don't think information overload is a function of the volume of information. It's a derivative of the volume of information plus the sense-making tools you have.

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)

Modern day information overload stops us sufficiently engaging with our thoughts.

...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.