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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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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With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. – Alfred Glossbrenner

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When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep. – Ursula K. LeGuin

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