Capacity Quote by Richard Dawkins

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made…

— Daniel Levitin

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

— Iain McGilchrist

Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.

— James Gleick

“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

“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

When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of luxury. We…

— Vivek Wadhwa

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and…

— Douglas Coupland

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When I opened Wikipedia, it had three articles, yet it was called an encyclopedia.

— Jimmy Wales

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S.

— Roger Angell

If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to…

— Anthony Doerr