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Quotes About Overload

Ma ei armasta seda maailma. Ma tõepoolest ei armasta seda. Ühiskond, milles ma elan, on mulle vastik; reklaam ajab südame pahaks; info ajab oksele. Minu töö arvutispetsialistina seisneb andmete, infohulga ja ratsionaalsete otsustuskriteeriumite mitmekordistamises. See on täiesti mõttetu. Ausalt öeldes on see isegi halb; täiesti kasutu lisapinge närvirakkudele. Selles maailmas on küll kõike muud vaja kui lisainformatsiooni.
~ Michel Houellebecq
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
~ Mitch Kapor
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.
~ Neil Postman
When there is too much information to sustain any theory, information becomes essentially meaningless.
~ Neil Postman
In a sea of information, there was very little of it to use.
~ Neil Postman
The influx of competing messages that we receive whenever we go online not only overloads our working memory; it makes it much harder for our frontal lobes to concentrate our attention on any one thing. The process of memory consolidation can't even get started.
~ Unknown
The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.
~ Unknown
we are "training our brains to pay attention to the crap.
~ Unknown
It was like being inside a lyre, inside a drum, inside a pipe. Hild thought her head might burst.
~ Nicola Griffith
The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life.
~ Os Guinness
If you tell too much too soon, you'll overload them and they'll give up. If you confuse them, they'll ignore the message altogether.
~ Paco Underhill
And too much informayshun can drive a man mad. Too much informayshun becomes just Noise. And it never, never stops.
~ Patrick Ness
There are too many scenes where you think, It's a bit much. The movie crowds you; it doesn't give you room to have an honest emotion.
~ Pauline Kael
Nos estamos ahogando en información, dicen, pero «pasamos hambre de conocimiento». Podemos convertirnos en «gigantes de la información», pero corremos el riesgo de convertirnos en «enanos del conocimiento».
~ Peter Burke