Quotes About Overload

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!!

She had never paid much attention to the Middle Eastern situation, per se, and now she knew why. It was an overload of craziness. It was a seventy-piece orchestra rehearsing a funeral dirge and a wedding march simultaneously in a broom closet.

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

The human brain has a mechanism for dealing with data overload. It forgets. If indeed we're on a path to building machines that think like us, how ironic if the next great invention in computer memory turns out to be forgetting.

Back in 1971, Herbert Simon, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978, warned that "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." This is much worse today, in particular for decision-makers who tend to be overloaded with too much "stuff" – overwhelmed and on overdrive, in a state of constant stress.

beyond important news, let's face it: Facebook and Twitter are filled with information no one really needs to know.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

An action film can have too much action; picture an equaliser on a stereo, with all the knobs pegged at 10. It becomes a cacophony and is, ultimately, quite boring.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

With social networks these days, everyone needs to know everything all the time. But the problem is, people are so used to short snippets of information that no one has any attention span anymore. I don't, anyway.

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

Focus is passé. In the modern world we want to feel everything all the time. There is no point in just taking a walk in the park when we can also listen to headphones, munch on a hot dog, crank up our vibrating soles to the maximum, and check out the passing carnival of humanity. Our choices about the creed of a new world order: stimulation! Thought and creativity have become subservient to the singular goal of saturating our senses.

Smartphones, devastating the world one instantly delivered tragedy at a time.

the environment is now transmitting less and less useful information, and more and more that is entirely useless. 2009

More companies die from indigestion than starvation.

white! Total overload! The hangar sounds

Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Overload is a condition of our hearts. It's the result of following our own to-do list rather than God's.

...the heart is full — another throb would split it...