Overload Quotes

• I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Blow, Brain, Mind

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• The cure to information overload is more information.

  David Weinberger

  Information, Information Overload, Cures

  "The Cure to Information Overload Is More Information". Hyperorg.com, May 24, 2005.

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• I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.

  Joe Cocker

  People, These Days, Ballads

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• 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.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Media, Information

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.135, McClelland & Stewart

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• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

  Johannes Brahms

  Melody, Handle

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• We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.

  Charles Kingsley

  Bible, Biblical, Special

  "Politics for the People".

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• There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Impossible, Moments

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2012

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• I believe C++ instills fear in programmers, fear that the interaction of some details causes unpredictable results. Its unmanageable complexity has spawned more fear-preventing tools than any other language, but the solution should have been to create and use a language that does not overload the whole goddamn human brain with irrelevant details.

  Erik Naggum

  Believe, Should Have, Brain

  Re: Checking for Errors Before Run Time (Usenet article), groups.google.com. November 21, 2001.

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• If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.

  David Brooks

  Race, Self, People

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

  Brian Solis

  Choices, Focus, Important

  Twitter post from Feb 7, 2016

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

  Chad Hurley

  People, Credit, Information

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• To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

  David Hume

  Truth, Ignorance, Numbers

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Excess, Bears, Ass

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.4

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• We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Years, Google

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself.

  Chuck Ragan

  Track, Giving, Easy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.

  Jancee Dunn

  Children, School, Kids

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• Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

  Q-Tip

  Wall, Imagination, Sound

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• everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage.

  Jane Smiley

  Thinking, Toxic, Toxins

  Jane Smiley (2011). “A Thousand Acres: A Novel”, p.29, Anchor

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• My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event.

  Joyelle McSweeney

  Art, Magic, Events

  "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.

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• Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Kicks, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become more pronounced. People talk about how, for them, the war was technicolor and real life was black and white after the war.

  David Ayer

  Real, War, Black And White

  Source: collider.com

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• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.

  Clarence Benjamin Jones

  Leadership, Character, Men

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• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  Abel Korzeniowski

  Trying, Use, Instruments

  "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.

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• The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Light

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