Age Quote by Daniel Levitin

“So in 2013 the amount of stored information in the world is estimated to be around 1,200 exabytes, of which less than 2 percent is non-digital.”

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

— Eric Schmidt

“Nearly 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube, three million pieces of content shared by Facebook users, and 230,000 new photos posted on…

— Bharat Anand

“chief executive of Google, reckoned in 2010 that about five exabytes of data, or the equivalent of 250,000 years of DVD-quality video, was created…

— Portfolio Penguin

Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about…

— Eli Pariser

“IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world’s data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated…

— Robert Scoble

Everyone talks about how much data's in the world. Except, actually, 80% of it is pretty blind to computers. I mean, it can store…

— Ginni Rometty

“It seems we can manage at most seven bits of information—such as differentiated sounds, or visual stimuli, or recognizable nuances of emotion or thought—at…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

— Richard Dawkins

It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been…

— Hal Varian

“The amount of stored information grows four times faster than the world economy, while the processing power of computers grows nine times faster. Little…

— Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

— Elizabeth Kolbert