{"quotes":[{"text":"Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction).","author":"Seneca","tags":["1st-century","books","information-overload","seneca"],"id":22676,"author_id":"Seneca"},{"text":"We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["information-overload","new-media","social-media"],"id":51203,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Your everyday supermarket now carries roughly 40,000 items - twice as many as a decade ago. There are so many products, so many brands and sub-species of those brands, that no consumer is safe from the bombardment of choice overload.A huge variety of product offering doesn't aid consumers. It is insanity. From the vast array of athletic shoes to bagels to portable CD players to bottled water, there quickly becomes a point at which mega-choices, like mega-information, do not serve the consumer; they abuse him.","author":"Jeff Davidson","tags":["choices","information-overload"],"id":52676,"author_id":"Jeff+Davidson"},{"text":"Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["information-overload","optimism","pessimism"],"id":100821,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["information","information-overload"],"id":100828,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don't want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.--James E. Faust.","author":"Carolyn J. Rasmus","tags":["enjoy-life","information-overload","peace-of-mind"],"id":135994,"author_id":"Carolyn+J.+Rasmus"},{"text":"In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["access","age","confusion","eye","information","information-overload","internet","issue","junkies","media","mind","mind-control","mind-pollution","mobile","news","overload","overwhelming","storm","technology","too-much","world"],"id":137378,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice.","author":"Brian Solis","tags":["choice","focus","information-overload"],"id":159125,"author_id":"Brian+Solis"},{"text":"...A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...","author":"Herbert A. Simon","tags":["attention","information-overload","inspirational","science"],"id":173844,"author_id":"Herbert+A.+Simon"},{"text":"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["information-age","information-overload","social-media"],"id":190228,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}