Excess Information Quotes

#1. We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Peter Greenaway

#2. Overstimulated. Light, sound, touch, all had been amped up. He closed his eyes to shut out the excess information and tried to get his senses to slow down.

Carol Shay Hornung

#3. A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

Ivan Glasenberg

#4. I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.

Gerhard

#5. Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

Edward Tufte

#6. Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Henry Ford

#7. Eating disorders are shrouded in secrecy, and there are so many things I felt very ashamed of that I could never talk about. Even though I have fully recovered, there were still things that I needed to go through again and work through.

Portia De Rossi

#8. I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

Warren Buffett

#9. What does it take to become a saint? Will it.

Thomas Aquinas

#10. I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes.

Bill Buckner

#11. His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before.

Salman Rushdie

#12. Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Keith Miller

#13. Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

Tim Ferriss

#14. At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

Clarence H. Burns

#15. Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

Anzia Yezierska

#16. Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Umberto Eco