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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.

  Oliver Stone

  Greek, Age, Information

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely undernourished. One might go so far as to say that Protestants in particular suffer from a form of visual anorexia. It is not that there is a lack of visual stimuli, but rather a lack of wholesomeness of form and content amidst the all-pervasive sensory overload.

  John Walford

  Art, Anorexia, Suffering

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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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• 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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• 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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• Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Details, Add

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• Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 02, 2017

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• Life has become a state of sensory overload.

  Joseph Curiale

  Life, States, Sensory

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• There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Confusing, Information

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• Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Alternatives, Patterns, Information

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

  Barbara Bush

  Interesting, Political, Trying

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• I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

  Richard Foreman

  Unique, Technology, Men

  "The Pancake People, Or, 'The Gods Are Pounding My Head'". A Statement, www.edge.org. March 8, 2005.

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• I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

  Richard Foreman

  Technology, Self, Information

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• What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

  John Maeda

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  "Why Apple Leads the Way in Design" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Data, Suffering, Trying

  "Management Misinformation Systems". Management Sciences Vol. 14, No. 4, (p. 148), December 1967.

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• There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

  Clay Shirky

  Filters, Information, Information Overload

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