In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” Simon’s insight is often reduced to “In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.” Our

The result of information overload is usually distraction, and it dilutes your focus and takes you off your game.

Information without execution is poverty. Remember: we’re drowning in information, but we’re starving for wisdom.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

Attention will be given when information novelty is high and will drift away when information novelty is low.

We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information. We have come to confuse information with understanding.

The vast accumulations of knowledge — or at least of information — deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts.

We live in an age in which there is too much information, less knowledge and even less wisdom. That ratio needs to be reversed. We definitely need less information, more knowledge, and much more wisdom.

Too much information creates the same result as too little: you don't have what you need, when and in the way you need it.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything

Too much information creates the same result as too little:

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to