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

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Library, Information, Facts

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• You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Acting, Sensory

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• When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without avidity, with reflection to the glory of God, remembering the God Who feeds us, and above all His incorruptible food, His Body and Blood, that out of love He has given Himself to us in food and drink, remembering also the holy word of the Gospel.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Heart, Reflection

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

  Marshall McLuhan

  Patterns, Information, Recognition

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• 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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Love Is, Psychics, Garbage Cans

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• I know of several children and adults (with Asperger’s Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses.

  Tony Attwood

  Children, Adults, Lenses

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

  Michael Lazerow

  Filters, World, Information

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• Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  William Gibson

  Block, Home, White

  William Gibson (2016). “Neuromancer”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• "Point of view" is that quintessentially human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum... In a world of hyperabundant content, point of view will become the scarcest of resources...

  Paul Saffo

  Views, Age, Information

  "It's The Context, Stupid" by Paul Saffo, www.wired.com. March 1, 1994.

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• In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

  Patrick Ness

  Boys, Numbness, World

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• Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

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• My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hands, Emotion, Shoulders

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• 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.

  Temple Grandin

  Baseball, Children, School

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• Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary) Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cupcakes, Wicked, Taste Buds

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “The Dream-Hunter”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Roots, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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

  Clay Shirky

  Knowledge, Learning, Technology

  Web 2.0 Expo, www.cnn.com. 2008.

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• I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is.

  Darin Strauss

  Running, Dark, Emotional

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.14, Random House

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• It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

  J. Maarten Troost

  Appreciated, Deprivation, American Life

  J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.8, Broadway Books

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• Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

  Anatole France

  Teaching, Fire, Vanity

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• The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Data, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Technology, Management and Society”, p.11, Routledge

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

  Susan Orlean

  Choices, Modern Life, Internet

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me.

  Lora Leigh

  Ask Me, Testosterone, Grunt

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Ems, Information, Simplify

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• The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload.

  James Garner

  Challenges, Information, Internet Users

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