Quote by Herbert Simon
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the atten

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. – Herbert Simon

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Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design. – Herbert Simon

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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If were bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if were good people we use it for good purposes. – Herbert Simon

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Theres a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they dont master and connect information. – Everette Dennis

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Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless dont even arise. – Jean Baudrillard

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The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly exceeds the tools and techniques available to sort,extract, and apply the information weve collected. – Jeff Davidson

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Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level. – Paul G. Thomas

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