Attention Quote by Anonymous

“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

— Jocelyn K. Glei

“Too much information creates the same result as too little:”

— David Allen

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

— Richard Saul Wurman

“Jacques Ellul suggested too much information creates a confused sense of impotence: The infinite multiplicity of facts that I am given about each situation…

— Craig Detweiler

“In India, about half of all poor households do not have a BPL (below-poverty-line) card and about one-third of the non-poor (under the rules)…

— Guy Standing

Affluence creates poverty.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Without the ability to discern, we stand impotent in an age of information overload.”

— Anonymous

“A wealth of information means a poverty of attention.”

— Daniel Goleman

“Back in the seventies, Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It…

— Franklin Foer

“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…

— Kevin Kelly

“Herbert Simon, the Nobel-winning economist, took these inchoate sentiments and explained them rigorously: “What information consumes is rather obvious. It consumes the attention of…

— Franklin Foer