Too Much Information Quotes - Page 2

• As recently as the '70s, people were forced to see information that they didn't agree with in newspapers and the like. Now there is so much information you really can build your own walled garden that just has the stuff that reinforces your view. I think it applies to all of us. People are really going into these separate camps, and that's the big social challenge in this age of too much information. How do we crack that and create a common dialogue?

  Paul Saffo

  Garden, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

  Matt Smith

  Next Week, Events, Albums

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

  Sai Baba

  Change, Yoga, Transformation

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• When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging. I think as long as you keep your mind in the palce where you're actively looking for patterns, you may not be safe, but you're going to feel safe, I think.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Long, Mind

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.

  Toni Morrison

  Sexy, Writing, Way

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• Years ago, it was easier to make new things than it is now. The weight of experience weighs heavily, and the expectations; everybody wants to see something they haven't seen before. Now, with social media, with too much information, with the speed of information - all that is making it harder and harder to realize the objective.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Media, Years, Expectations

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As for the clarity of the 48 frames, I've heard people say that it looks odd, it's too demanding, there's too much information, you don't know where to look.

  Ian Mckellen

  People, Looks, Clarity

  Source: collider.com

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• I don’t use a computer. We have too much information and it’s really impossible to filter it.

  Mikhail Prokhorov

  Filters, Use, Impossible

  "Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov Doesn’t Have A Cell Phone". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out of vanity, or you tend to be indiscriminate about it. I mean, in the old days, it was tricky, you had to go to various encyclopedias, you had to go to the library, maybe spend a day there, whatever. But in the end, if you found something, it was really exciting. Now you hit a couple of buttons and you get some information. Which, by the way, is almost always presented in that same goddamn mediocre style that characterizes the Internet for me. It is slightly deadening.

  Norman Mailer

  Couple, Mean, Vanity

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• I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• I don't tweet, I don't go on Facebook. I think there's too much information about all of us out there. I'm liking the idea of privacy more and more.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Ideas, Goes On

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• I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

  Jon McGregor

  People, Trying, Want

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.

  David Levithan

  Believe, Hard Times, Hoping For Something

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.71, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Magnus sighed. "Alexander, I've been alive for hundreds of years. I've been with men, been with women - with faeries and warlocks and vampires, and even a djinn or two." He looked sideways at Maryse, who looked mildly horrified. "Too much information?

  Cassandra Clare

  Men, Years, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• There was no sign of Jules. “Bad news,” said Elliot. “The man is sick. You’re going to have to settle for me.” “Sick?” Vee demanded. “How sick? What kind of excuse is sick?” “Sick as in it’s coming out both ends.” Vee scrunched her nose. “Too much information.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Men, Sick, News

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I am spending much more than I'm making on these cars and these vacations, is that too much information?

  Drake

  Humble, Vacation, Car

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• I am not a fan of Facebook or Twitter. They both allow too much information to be available and they make privacy a thing of the past.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Past, Fans, Privacy

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• Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information.

  Peter Bart

  Stars, Example, Coverage

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• TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.

  Michael Scott

  Lame, Easier, Used

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• We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.

  Dean Wareham

  Weed, Independent, Sea

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• One of the most difficult problems of our age is that leaders, and perhaps academics as well, cannot readily admit that things are out of control and that we do not know what to do. We have too much information, limited cognitive abilities to think in systemic terms and an unwillingness to appear to be in control and to have solutions for our problems. We are afraid that if we admit to our confusion, we will make our followers and students anxious and disillusioned. We know we must learn how to learn, but we are afraid to admit it.

  Donald Michael Kraig

  Learning, Thinking, Confusion

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• 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.

  Esther Dyson

  Thinking, Attention, Scarcity

  "On the Frontier". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October, 1996.

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• I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Thinking, Way, Next

  "Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. OCtober 19, 2011.

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• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Technology, Guy, Noise

  "Nassim Taleb: 'Big corporations will always fail'". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.

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• How do I ask my shrink to stop responding to everything I say with, Too much information! and then giggling behind a pillow?

  Dana Gould

  Responding, Behinds, Pillow

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