Too Much Information Quotes

• We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

  Jean Baudrillard

  World, Information Overload, Simulacrum

  Jean Baudrillard (1994). “Simulacra and simulation”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think people need to know what shower gel I'm using. There's too much information in the world, and there's no magic or mystery anymore.

  Noel Gallagher

  Thinking, People, Magic

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• We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Confused, Knowledge

  Interview "All Songs Considered", NPR, May 20, 2008.

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• Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Knowledge, Organized Life, Lost

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• I remember telling a neurosurgeon, "Don't give me too much information, because at the moment my ignorance is my best asset."

  Christopher Reeve

  Ignorance, Giving, Neurosurgeons

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

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Technology

  1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

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• Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Littles, Information, Too Much

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• Too much information will make your brain choke.

  Bryan Davis

  Brain, Choke, Information

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• Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don't need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 31, 2015

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• Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

  Howard Rheingold

  Knowing, Ingredients, Firsts

  Howard Rheingold, Anthony Weeks (2012). “Net Smart: How to Thrive Online”, p.2, MIT Press

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• There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Ignorance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2694, Delphi Classics

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• Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

  Dan Ariely

  Witty, Sex, Teenage

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• Too much information about nothing.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart

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• You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  Harlan Ellison

  Motivational, Stupid, Ignorance

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• Too much information is rather deadening.

  Willa Cather

  Information, Too Much

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• All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Novelists, Unanswered Questions, Answers

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Wisdom, Knowledge

  "Choruses from the Rock" pt. 1 (1934)

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• Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already.

  Tucker Carlson

  Not Interested, Knows, Information

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• So many people are struggling to create happiness while their brain is inundated by noise. If your brain is receiving too much information, it automatically thinks you're under threat and scans the world for the negative first. Because the brain is limited, whatever you attend to first becomes your reality.

  Shawn Achor

  Struggle, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.

  Eliza Coupe

  School, College, Acting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Education, Intelligent

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• I rolled back onto the lawn and pressed my forehead to the ground again and made the noise that Father calls groaning. I make this noise when there is too much information coming into my head from the outside world. It is like when you are upset and you hold the radio against your ear and you tune it halfway between two stations so that all you get is white noise and then you turn the volume right up so that this is all can hear and then you know you are safe because you cannot hear anything else

  Mark Haddon

  Father, Two, White

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• Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.

  Casey Affleck

  Book, Information, Too Much

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2010.

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• Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Careers, Giving, Too Much

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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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