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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One of the first rules of science is if somebody delivers a secret weapon to you, you better use 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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Information storage has to take place at the unconscious level. – Paul G. Thomas

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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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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. – Gunther Grass

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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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