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Information Overload = "information pollution" -- Jakob Nielsen
Overload of information does not ensure education. -- Amitav Chowdhury
Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things. -- J. K. Rowling
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. -- Daniel Goleman
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation. -- James Gleick
I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. -- Ridley Scott
Too much collagen will damage the skin. You will get collagen overload. -- Chris Toumazou
I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people. -- Joe Cocker
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary. -- Abel Korzeniowski
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators. -- Chad Hurley
Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life. -- Susan Orlean
We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. -- Johannes Brahms
I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting. -- Charles Hazlewood
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. -- Marshall McLuhan
The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section. -- Barbara Bush
I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up. -- Erma Bombeck
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral. -- Gail Sheehy
The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma. -- Greg LeMond
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. -- Thomas P. Campbell
I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload. -- William Shockley
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit. -- Samuel Freeman Miller
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. -- Temple Grandin
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload. -- Q-Tip
Life has become a state of sensory overload. -- Joseph Curiale
Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick. -- Benjamin Franklin
The cure to information overload is more information. -- David Weinberger
The ass bears the load, but not the overload. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure. -- Clay Shirky
The greatest challenge Internet users face is information overload. -- James Garner
Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. -- Marshall McLuhan
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible. -- Nicholas Sparks
When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth. -- Marshall McLuhan
Mobile is the future and there's no such thing as communication overload -- Eric Schmidt
Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back. -- Jim Rohn
You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload. -- Temple Grandin
We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure. -- Michael Lazerow
Testosterone overload?" Merinus gave an unladylike grunt. "More like asshole overload if you ask me. -- Lora Leigh
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. -- Richard Saul Wurman
Information overload is a symptom of our desire to not focus on what's important. It is a choice. -- Brian Solis
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark. -- Anatole France
We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness. -- Clarence Benjamin Jones
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances. -- Alvin Toffler
I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away -- Richelle Mead
This overload is edging me further out to sea, I need to put some distances between overkill and me. -- Elton John
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed. -- Patrick Ness
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design. -- Edward Tufte
everything is toxic. That's the point. You can't avoid toxins. Thinking you can is just another symptom of the toxic overload stage. -- Jane Smiley
We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player. -- Stephen Curry
Parts of our genome simply cannot survive a situation where the environment suffers from the full overload of toxins we currently live in. -- Kat Lahr
With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators. -- Chad Hurley
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though. -- Oliver Stone
The author explores the result of endless choice. It is not only overload, but a profound loss of unity, solidity, and coherence in life. -- Os Guinness
My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, thereâ??s no shoulder here to lean on; Iâ??m walking all on my own. -- Christina Aguilera
The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I know of several children and adults (with Asperger's Syndrome) who have reported a considerable reduction in visual sensitivity and sensory overload when wearing Irlen lenses. -- Tony Attwood
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated." -- J. Maarten Troost
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated. -- J. Maarten Troost
My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload. -- Bharati Mukherjee
One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with -- Marshall McLuhan
On the road, it's constant sensory overload, and it's easy to lose track of days and time and to get caught up in the constant giving of yourself. -- Chuck Ragan
Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!! -- Charles Bukowski
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss. -- Charles Bukowski
My notion of art is very maximalist and souped-up: I love spectacle, overload, magic materials, magic words, incantation and litany, incarnation and possession, spilling and wounds. Art as a sacred event. -- Joyelle McSweeney
The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes. -- Peter Drucker
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Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload. -- Russell L. Ackoff
Oh no, if you really want to be wicked to him, nuke it first. (Geary) Yeah, but given his reaction to the cupcake, that might overload his taste buds with pleasure and kill him. (Tory) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born. -- Chris Hadfield

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