Capacity Quote by George Armitage Miller

“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

“I had thought that the magic of the information age was that it allowed us to know more, but then I realized the magic…

— David Brooks

We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and trasmit data -- the lowest cognitive form…

— Dee Hock

“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

“Scientists now know the brain receives 400 billion bits of information each second. To give you some idea of just how much information that…

— Pam Grout

“From millions of sources all over the globe, through every possible channel and medium—light waves, airwaves, ticker tapes, computer banks, telephone wires, television cables,…

— Neil Postman

“Attend any conference on telecommunications or computer technology, and you will be attending a celebration of innovative machinery that generates, stores, and distributes more…

— Neil Postman

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

— Poul Anderson

Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Computers combine things to make new knowledge at such high speed that we cannot absorb it.

— Orson Welles

“Access to information can be empowering. When it overwhelms us, constantly bombarding us with data, infobesity eventually estranges us from ourselves and holds us…

— Erik Pevernagie

We systematically overestimate the value of access to information and underestimate the value of access to each other.

— Clay Shirky